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Sometimes workers do not feel attachment for their work. Marx formed a theory for this situation, discuss that theory.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Sociological Thinkers

A worker's detachment from work is what Karl Marx called alienation (Entfremdung). In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) he argued that labour, which should be the free, creative expression of human nature, becomes under capitalism "external to the worker": something done only to survive. For Marx, the problem is not a bad attitude but…

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  • Why work becomes alien
  • Four dimensions of alienation
  • Empirical development
  • Contemporary illustration: platform work in India
  • Limits of the theory
  • Conclusion

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