Karl Marx thought of work as something that shapes people and turns their work into something

that can be traded for money. Labor power is a worker's ability to make things or provide
services. The labor-power system is based on the idea that the worker voluntarily signs a
contract with the employer, who buys the worker's labor power as a commodity. But the worker
is taken advantage of, and the capitalist tries to make the most money by giving them enough
money to live and make more workers. Marx used basic economic principles to argue that the
value of labor power should be equal to the average number of hours of work it takes to feed,
clothe, and house a worker so that they can work. In other words, a worker's long-term pay will
depend on how many hours of work it takes to make someone who can get a job. Let's say it
takes a worker five hours of work each day to feed, clothe, and protect him or herself so that he
or she can go to work the next day. If one hour of work was worth a dollar, the right daily wage
would be $5.

Alienation is when a worker doesn't feel like his or her work is making a difference. This is
happening because of commodity fetishism, which is the idea that inanimate things have human
powers. In capitalism, workers are taken advantage of because they don't make a product for a
real person. Instead, they sell their work to a capitalist for money. Marx says that capitalism is a
way of organizing economic life with three features: private ownership of the means of
production to make a profit, individual producers owning their labor power and being able to
trade it with employers in a labor market for payment, and commodity production, in which
goods are made to be sold on the market instead of being used directly.

Marx thought that people have a unique nature, or "species character," and that they can act
freely and make things in different ways "universally." He also said that nonhuman animals are
instantly one with their life activity and that work does not reflect or satisfy the species'
character. Lastly, he thought that the whole capitalist system was set up to hurt workers, and
that even when labor unions won in the short term, the boss still had control over the workers'
time. So, the worker would be permanently cut off from his or her job, and the more a worker
uses his or her job to claim the outside world and sensual nature as his or her own, the more he
or she loses two ways to make a living. First, the external world of senses becomes less of an
object of his work and less of a way for him to live through his work. Second, it becomes less
and less of a way for the worker to stay alive in the short term.

Marx says that work is necessary for the worker to stay alive and make things, because it gives
them the freedom to act and make things "universally" for reasons other than biological needs.
The worst thing about this slavery is that the worker can only stay alive as a body if he works.
Marx said that alienation is caused by capitalism and that changes to capitalism can't fix it.
The way labor shows up in the political economy is as an object, which is a loss of reality and a
sense of being separate from the world. This means that the worker loses the things he needs
most for work and life because his product, capital, has more power over him as he makes more
things. The worker's work becomes an object when it is "externalized" in his product. This
means that his work exists outside of him, apart from him, and is foreign to him. It also means
that it starts to confront him as an independent power. Labor power is a worker's ability to make
things. Marx used classical economics to show that labor power is equal to the average number
of hours of work needed to feed, clothe, and house a worker. Immigrant workers had to take low
pay in order to take care of their families or themselves.

Karl Marx said that capitalism turned the productive forces of labor into the creative forces of
capital, making the capitalist more permanent than the worker. The workers are paid by the
piece, work 11 hours a day, and get one or two days off a month, but there are no employment
contracts. In order to keep production up, the law of the company says that employees can't
take breaks, so they have to work like slaves to get more. Without nature and sensuality, the
worker can't make anything and becomes the object's slave in two ways: he gets paid to work
and is fed, so he is only a physical subject in his role as a worker.

Nature provided both the worker's physical sustenance and its means of existence in the
broadest sense. There are two ways he deprives himself of the means of life, first, the sensory
external world becomes less an object of his labor and an immediate means of life a means for
the worker's physical existence. He received employment sustenance. So that he can work and
physically exist. Without nature and sensuality, the worker can't produce.
Shein is an online Chinese retailer of rapid fashion with headquarters in Singapore. Chris Xu
founded ZZKKO in Nanjing in October 2008, and by 2022, Shein had become the largest
fashion shop in the world. Shein was valued at $100 billion and was shipping to more than 150
nations. Shein's success has been attributed to the brand's appeal among Generation Z
customers. Shein is well-known for providing relatively inexpensive clothing. Initially, the
company was compared to a drop-shipping corporation because it did not engage in design or
manufacturing and instead sourced its products from the wholesale apparel market in
Guangzhou. Shein has been criticized on multiple occasions for nearly every negative business
practice imaginable, including bad working conditions, low-wage, safety deficiencies, no
employee contract and health insurance, copying the work of independent designers, and
improperly handling customer data. The labor in the company of Shein all provide roughly the
same working hours: 8 a.m. to noon, 1.30 p.m. to 5.45 p.m., and then 7 p.m. to 10 or 10.30 p.m.
They have one day off per month in addition to the one day per week that they work after
supper. In China, workers are expected to take at least one day off every week, and the
maximum number of hours allowed per week is 40. Also, the total amount of overtime allowed
per month cannot exceed 36 hours. According to the findings of a research that was carried out
on Shein, the workers were compelled to continue working despite receiving only a meager
wage in order to provide for themselves and their families. Some were not able to be free in
their job place due to them being immigrants. The researcher says that most of the workers she
talked to were more or less happy with their jobs, but "I don't think they think about it all that
much." A man mentioned that during a prosperous month, he can earn up to 10,000 yuan,
which is equivalent to approximately CHF 1,400; however, during less prosperous months, he
may only earn a third of that amount.