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Write short note: Alienation in modern society.

  • UPSC 1981
  • Sociological Thinkers

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Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844) described alienation as the estrangement of workers from their product, the labour process, their creative human essence and one another, because capital owns and directs their labour. Modern society has not abolished this condition. It has changed its site: from the factory floor to consumption, the office, the…

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  • From production to consumption: the Frankfurt School
  • Workplace alienation after the assembly line
  • Late-modern forms
  • Critical note
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