Work becomes less alienating when workers are given more autonomy, voice in workplace decisions, and jobs that develop skills. The Left needs a practical strategy for making jobs better now and ...

Her fabric designs jazzed up the London Underground and though Queen Elizabeth II rejected her idea for a stamp, her work made a permanent cultural imprint, as a new exhibition reveals Last time you ...

Marx argues that people, caught up in the cogs of capitalist production, become alienated over time from the value they produce and from their own labour. This philosophy describes how the creative ...

In Volume 1 of Capital, Karl Marx ventures the opinion that “classical political economy stumbles approximately onto the true state of affairs, but without consciously formulating it. It is unable to ...

Alan Feigenbaum and Deepti Shenoy present a Q&A with retired matrimonial Judge Richard Dollinger where they examine parental alienation in custody disputes and highlight the challenges courts face in ...

Is remote work a good thing, or does it increase alienation and exploitation of workers? The argument against the employer-led benefits charge runs that remote (or hybrid) work leads to workers ...

Introduction: Why do we think "it's inevitable to be poor"? "It's inevitable that wages aren't rising because the economy is bad." "My life is difficult because I don't work hard enough." We hear ...

“The bourgeois like to think that they alone are born with the right to dominate culture. But every human being has the potential to appreciate the arts, and to excel in all of them. This artistic ...

"Humans become human through labor." The 19th-century German thinker Karl Marx thought thoroughly about the meaning of "labor" within capitalism. What he discerned was the contradiction that while ...