Working people under state-monopoly capitalism / Y. Yanov and L. Tarasov.

Foreword -- Changes in the economy and in the labour force -- How monopolies affect the working people -- Changes in the class structure -- The role and place of the working class in capitalist society -- Wages and the standard of living -- Exploitation: Trends and methods -- Who benefits from capitalist rationalization? -- Capitalism and female labour -- "Nomads" in industrial society -- Pro-monopoly state regulation -- Capitalism and the environment -- The labour pool today and tomorrow -- Forerunners of new class battles.

"It has not been the authors' intention to examine all the economic and social problems of the contemporary capitalist world. They have set for themselves the more modest task of showing the inter-relations of changes in production and those in the character of labour, the structure of the labour force, and the socio-economic condition of the working people. For this purpose they used the results of a comparative study, conducted with their participation, of national incomes and labour resources in a group of industrially developed countries (the United States, Canada, the Common Market countries, Sweden and Japan), which account for more than four-fifths of the production potential of the capitalist world." -- From the foreword.