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Work Alienation and Problem Alcohol Behavior

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1995
Using a sample of production workers from union, nonunion, producer cooperative, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) wood products mills in the Northwest, we test the general proposition that work alienation, defined as low job autonomy, low use of capacities, and lack of participation in decision-making in the workplace, is associated with heavy ...
E S, Greenberg, L, Grunberg
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Alienation and the Problem of Work in Doctoral Education

2022
In recent decades, Karl Marx has had something of a bad rap. The fall of the Soviet empire in 1990 coupled with a self-confident neo-liberal international economic system delivering seemingly unlimited benefits to the victors of the Cold War seemed capable of bringing an end to both ideology and history.
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Alienation from work

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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Prestige, Work Satisfaction, and Alienation

Work and Occupations, 1982
Work dissatisfaction and general alienation of incumbents in seven nonfactory and nonoffice occupations ranging across the prestige hierarchy are examined and compared. Our findings challenge some rather commonly accepted (if seldom tested) social science generalizations.
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Work alienation

2022
[No abstract available]
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Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy

2023
It 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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Some Determinants of Work Alienation

The Sociological Quarterly, 1981
This study represents an attempt to examine the nature and sources of self-estrangement in work. The concept is defined using a discrepancy approach.
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ALIENATING AND LIBERATING EMOTIONS AT WORK

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1993
Hochschild'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, 1984
Rabindra N.
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On the Personal Consequences of Alienation in Work

American Sociological Review, 1967
The 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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