To what extent do the 'survival strategies' counter work alienation?
This title is self-explanatory and can lead into discussions about the many types of survival strategy and the theory of work alienation. Throughout the first part of this essay I will be defining and giving brief information on such issues, and will identify many of the studies and theorists that have been concerned with the notion of survival strategies and alienation. However, my main arguments will not be centred around these individual phoneme, but whether or not they interact and whether workers use survival strategies to help cope with and reduce alienation at work, and if so how and why they participate in such activities.
The theory of alienation is one that has been the subject of many debates over the past century, two of the most influential theorists in this field are Karl Marx and Robert Blauner.…
