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14 Alienation
14 Alienation
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offer intrinsic satisfactions which make it possible for the worker 'to
develop freely his mental and physical energies’, Since labour is imposed
on worker by force of external circumstances alone', (Economic division
of labour) Work becomes a means to an end rather than an end in itself:
This is shown by the fact that ‘as soon as there is no physical or other
compulsion, men free from labour like the plague’.
They found that across the production technology workers defined work
primarily as a means to an end, in particular as a means for obtaining
money to raise their living standards.