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Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen offer a telling examination of the rise of mass-produced imagery in the United States, tracing the pivotal role that such images played in the genesis and development of the American imagination. Beginning with the rise of the machine and the emergence of consumerism as a common way of life, the authors lay a strong foundation for an understanding of the twentieth-century American media culture. Spanning a wide range of fascinating subjects-movies, fashion, tabloid journalism-Ewen and Ewen offer forceful insights into the mechanisms that link alluring images and

Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgments; Prologue: In the Shadow of the Image; 1. The Bribe of Frankenstein; 2. Consumption as a Way of Life; 3. City Lights: Immigrant Women and the Rise of the Movies; 4. Fashion and Democracy; 5. Shadows on the Wall; Notes; Index

To fully comprehend the damages done by the division of labor, it is necessary to go beyond H. Braverman's distinction between the social division of labor & the detailed division of labor (Labor and Money Capital, New York, 1974). The capitalistic division of labor was based upon an already existing division of labor, which had already created inequalities & fractured human beings. By exclusively looking at wage labor, Braverman's analysis of the consciousness of wage laborers is weakened. Although the industrial revolution changed the nature of female labor, it also used an already existing division of labor; thus, although employment outside of the home is becoming the norm for married women, sexism is still a problem, much women's work is of a service nature, & women, even if fully employed, still mainly define themselves through their family roles. Thus, in order to understand the workings of the labor market, it is necessary also to examine how the home & neighborhood affect it. Monopoly capital may be of greater importance in the lives of working class women than the rise of capital since it completed the penetration of daily life by expanding industries. M. Migalski.

From a feminist perspective, Harry Braverman's focus in <em>Labor and Monopoly Capital</em> on the way industrial capitalism reorganizes and continually splits up the labor process has special importance. This focus provides the basis for a renewed revolutionary view of people's labor, an insistence that socialism cannot be created by a mere transfer of ownership of products but must transform the processes of work and daily life. The powerlessness of women and all working-class people is not based solely on material deprivation but on the stunting of our human capacities by an oppressive division of labor.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-28-number-3" title="Vol. 28, No. 3: July-August 1976" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>