| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 157 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Alienation and Wellbeing -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 What Is Alienation? -- Introduction -- Alienation theory and medical sociology -- The Golden Age of Alienation Studies -- What is alienation? -- Product alienation -- Labour process alienation -- Other-human alienation -- Human-nature alienation -- Taking things forward -- Work takes many forms -- Conclusion -- Copyright notice -- 2 Responding to Criticisms of Alienation Theory -- Introduction -- Tackling the issues -- Human nature |
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Humans as embodied beings -- Needs -- Human labour -- Cooperative and social -- Human consciousness -- Relationship with nature -- Towards other species alienation and why other creatures, too, must become free -- Alienation, continuity and the epistemological break -- Conclusion -- 3 Alienation and Wellbeing -- Introduction -- What is wellbeing? -- Towards an internally related dialectic of how alienation gets under the skin -- Wellbeing and the four expressions of alienation -- Process and product alienation -- Fellow human-being alienation -- Human-nature alienation -- Conclusion |
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4 Case Study: Social Workers, the Compassionate Self and Disappointed Jugglers -- Introduction -- The case study -- A brief history of British social work from parochial professionalism to audit culture -- Results and analysis -- The compassionate self and the choice of social work as a profession -- The disappointed juggler and the realities of social work -- Conclusion -- Copyright notice -- 5 Is Alienation Theory Still Relevant? -- Alienation today -- The transitive and intransitive dimensions of knowledge -- Neoliberalism as a machine of alienation? -- Conclusion -- 6 Beyond Alienation? |
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Time for a new society? -- Everyday solidarities -- 'Make way for the worker' -- Juking the stats, juking the algorithm and juking alienation -- Join a trade union -- Final thoughts -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers insights into the argument that capitalist society damages human health and well-being. Drawing on and bringing Marx's theory of alienation forward to the present day, it uniquely links it to well-being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Alienation (Social psychology)
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Well-being.
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Capitalism.
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Marxian school of sociology.
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comfort (sensation)
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Capitalism.
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Marxian school of sociology.
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Well-being.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1529219310 |
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9781529219319 |
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