SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Division Of Labour, Commodification
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Outline the four aspects and three sources of alienation he discusses. Karl marx expanded concept of alienation, on how organization of work and that emerged in industrial capitalism. Alienated labour: the development of this term can be attributed to karl marx, who used it to describe and interpret the organization of work that emerged with industrial capitalism. According to marx there are four aspects of alienated labour. 4 aspects (1)process- this condition entails an separation of working people from the products of their labour (the product- the purpose for which they created it, how it was disposed of, its content, quality and quantity). Under industrial capitalism, workers are obliged to surrender their power to determine the product of labour via a. Wage contract, which in effect gives this power over to employers (the capitalist class). (2) product- alienated from the work process itself, that is, from their labour activity.