ABSTRACT
The labor process became more impersonal and control over labor was soon exerted abstractly, through the very structure of work rather than in the form of a tyrannical manager. Capital resolved to control the labor process by taking decision-making out of the hands of workers and instead entrusting the managerial strata with everyday decision-making pertaining to the labor process. The three main consequences of Taylorism, as Braverman shows, are: the disassociation of the labor process from the skills of workers, the separation of conception from execution, and capital's monopoly on knowledge of the labor process. Therefore, the worker is reliant upon managers to understand their place in the work process. Because Taylorism eliminates the need for workers to think about the labor process, it leads to deskilling over time.
