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.