Late capitalism and industrial psychology: A Marxian critique

In this thesis the development and function of industrial psychology is examined within a Marxian metatheoretical framework. It is argued that industrial psychology is an ideological artifact of late capitalism which enables the owners of the productive means to increase returns from purchased labor-time.;In addition, industrial psychology is viewed systematically as a dialectically-generated response to the development of a nascent working class consciousness brought about by the increasingly exploitive and alienating production relations characteristic of late capitalism.