Entfremdung in der Arbeit / Alienation at work

Henning Christoph ()
Additional contact information
Henning Christoph: Universität Erfurt, Max-Weber-Kolleg Postfach 900221, 99105 Erfurt

Arbeit, 2016, vol. 24, issue 1-2, 13-30

Abstract: Due to the intensification of labor in recent decades complaints about work-related alienation are on the rise. But what exactly is alienation? Based on recent changes in the world of work, this paper aims to rephrase Marx’s theory of alienation in a way that reconnects it to current research in the sociology and psychology of work, and to practice. Four qualitative dimensions of experiences of alienation are distinguished, and four explanations for these experiences are offered.

Keywords: Labour; alienation; Marxism; Critical theory; Arbeit; Entfremdung; Marxismus; Kritische Theorie; Labour; alienation; Marxism; Critical theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/arbeit-2016-0003 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:arbeit:v:24:y:2016:i:1-2:p:13-30:n:3

DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2016-0003

Access Statistics for this article

Arbeit is currently edited by Gerhard Bosch, Katrin Hansen and Arne Heise

More articles in Arbeit from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().