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Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy
2023It is becoming increasingly clear: platforms, formerly hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, are (re)shaping the world of work and workers. As Amazon has become a forerunner in setting these trends, this book examines two key and contrasting Amazon platforms: its e-commerce platform and its digital labor platform, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).
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International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2014
This paper responds to calls for research that takes into consideration the broader ideologies underpinning the employment relationship within capitalist societies by building and testing a model of work alienation. We examine how three work-related factors identified originally by Karl Marx act as precursors of alienation, that is, a disconnection of ...
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This paper responds to calls for research that takes into consideration the broader ideologies underpinning the employment relationship within capitalist societies by building and testing a model of work alienation. We examine how three work-related factors identified originally by Karl Marx act as precursors of alienation, that is, a disconnection of ...
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ALIENATING AND LIBERATING EMOTIONS AT WORK
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1993Hochschild's 1980s study of flight attendants found them estranged from their emotions. Using evidence drawn from interviews and observations of supermarket clerks' performance of customer service, this study replaces Hochschild's concept of emotional labor with new definitions of emotion as work-autonomous emotion management and regulated emotion ...
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Work Alienation: An Integrative Approach
Anthropology of Work Review, 1984Rabindra N.
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On the Personal Consequences of Alienation in Work
American Sociological Review, 1967The consequences of alienation in work (i.e., engagement in work which is not intrinsically rewarding) are examined, using a random sample of the male work force in a Swedish community. The consequences are those commonly attributed to work alienation by critics of modern industrial society: intergroup hostility, anomia, political withdrawal, status ...
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Work Alienation in the Textile Industry
Work and Occupations, 1985In his 1964 study, Alienation and Freedom, Robert Blauner explained unexpectedly low levels of alienation among textile workers in terms of family and community attachments and traditionalism. He used gender as a proxy for these unmeasured attitudes. By analyzing 1980 data, this article assesses change in the level of alienation and investigates the ...
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Work Alienation: A Pancultural Perspective
International Studies of Management & Organization, 1983The phenomenon of work alienation is often considered a central issue in many sociological and psychological analyses of organizational effectiveness in post indu striai societies (e.g., Seeman, 1971; Walton, 1972). More recently, organizational theorists and management practitioners have shown a strong interest in improving the quality of working life
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Inherent Alienation of Labor and Work
2020In this chapter, I argue that alienation is inherently caused by labor and work, rather than their economic organization. To address alienation, people should move away from labor and work, including even creative work.
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Alienation and Social Work Practice
Social Casework, 1984The idea of alienation and the development of alienation in society are examined. Concepts from alienation theory that illumine human functioning are presented along with ways they can be useful both in practice with individuals and in designing the administrative structure of social agencies.
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