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Alienation

Alienation  is worker dissatisfaction, the lack of a sense of fulfilment when a worker cannot see any positive result of his or her work.


Alienation is a term with various shades of psychological and sociological meaning, all of which refer in common to feelings of being estranged, separated and powerless, whether in relation to oneself, to nature , to other people, to wealth and the means of production in a society, or else to society as a whole.

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