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Marx talks of alienation in connection with a number of areas of life — religion, politics, social and economic relations — but particularly labour. I shall focus on the area of labour in this Chapter.1 In this area, at least, he clearly uses the concept of alienation in a critical manner. But what sort of criticism does it involve?
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Sayers, S. (2011). Alienation as a Critical Concept. In: Marx and Alienation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309142_6
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