
Is Karl Marx’s Theory of the Alienation of Workers Still Valid?
In his “Economic and Philosophic Manuscript of 1844” Marx identified four types of alienation that occur to workers laboring under a capitalist system of industrial production: Alienation of the worker from their product Alienation of the worker from the act of production Alienation of the worker from their species-essence Alienation of the worker from other workers We have come a long way since 1844 as we have transformed on how we work, the amount of time we spend at work,