Sociology / Unit 4 Soc 0457 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alienation
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The idea
Alienation, Marx's term, is the estrangement industrial workers experience from the product, the process, other workers, and their own capacities.
In practice
A worker fitting one component all day owns none of the result and decides none of the method.
Where people slip
Alienation is a structural relationship to work, not dissatisfaction with a job.
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