Alienation at workplace

Alienation at workplace

1. ALIENATION AT WORKPLACE

2. Work

3. Work

4. Alienation

5. Marx on Alienation

6. Marx on alienation

7. Alienation in capitalism

8. Alienation From the Product of One’s Labor Workers do not have the opportunity to relate to the products they are working on – goods are produced for exchange The main priority of workers is that there is simply a job for them to perform and earn money. ‘The more the worker produces the less he has to consume; the more he creates the more worthless he becomes’ Example : A worker on an assembly line may spend all day installing windows, yet never see the final car.

9. Alienation From the Process of One’s Labor Workers are alienated from their working conditions . “A worker does not control the conditions of her job because she does not own the means of production” Workers are expected to work in the way they are taught – no satisfaction. Example : An employee at Burger King cannot decide to change the spices used on the fries. Everything is decided by the bourgeoisie who dictate the orders to the laborers.

10. Alienation from human beings

11. Alienation From One’s Self

12. C.W.Mills on alienation Non-manual American Middle Class – while collar alienation. Non-manual workers sell their skills with persons' on the open market. Mills refers to this sector of the economy as the 'personality market' . A Market value is attached to personality characteristics and as a result people sell pieces of their personality – alienation from true selves “In the salesroom, in the boardroom , in the staff room, in the conference room, men and women are prostituting their personalities in pursuit of personal gain”

13. Robert Blauner

14. Blauner divides the concept of alienation into four dimensions Powerlessness - The degree of control workers have over their work; Meaninglessness - the degree of meaning and sense of purpose they find in work; isolation - the degree to which they are socially integrated into their work; self-estrangement - the degree to which they are involved in their work. Robert Blauner

15. Robert Blauner

16. Andre Gorz ; Herbert Marcuse- Alienation from work

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