The Writings of Professor Robert M. Young

'Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital' 50k

This is an essay review of a book which had a huge impact on the radical science movement in the 1970s and 1980s. It
provided a labour process perspective on science, technology and medicine and set off a whole train of thinking about
expertise in marxist terms. Although primarily expository in style, this essay can be seen as the origin of the labour
process way of thinking which was fundamental to the work of the Radical Science Journal Collective. I cannot claim
that it had much impact in the history, philosophy and social studies of science more broadly, but it deeply influenced
those of us who wanted to integrate the objective, subjective and social aspects of expertise in a single mode of
analysis. This essay was published in - Radical Science Journal - No. 4: 81-93, 1974.