Name: Marx Year: 1844 Title: ‘Estranged Labour’
Keywords: Link Contrast:
‘Estranged Labour’ Marx (1844) – German Ideology. Weber- Separation of cult/econ
‘Alienation’ 1-G.Simmel (1903) -Metro and the mental Modernity reading notes – good to use to
life/money economy offers illusion of criticise Marx’s universalism and
‘Alienated Labour’ choice Eurocentrism in the assumptions he makes
about historical development
Weber (2009) – the repressive nature of
Bureaucracy/division of Labour
Main Themes/ Arguments:
Main argument: Estrangement is based in the material relationship of production between man + his
product + those who rob him of the value in his product. His relationship with other men is decided by this
dynamic
Labour produces both men as commodities and commodities
Man devalued
+ becomes a
commidity.
More man produces
commodities more
this occurs
Commodity
increases in
value as men
produce more.
The workers
Labour becomes
embodied in Estrangment
Objectification of
what he
Labour
from product of Alientation
produces, and he Labour
takes less + less
reward from this
Keywords: Link Contrast:
‘Estranged Labour’ Marx (1844) – German Ideology. Weber- Separation of cult/econ
‘Alienation’ 1-G.Simmel (1903) -Metro and the mental Modernity reading notes – good to use to
life/money economy offers illusion of criticise Marx’s universalism and
‘Alienated Labour’ choice Eurocentrism in the assumptions he makes
about historical development
Weber (2009) – the repressive nature of
Bureaucracy/division of Labour
Main Themes/ Arguments:
Main argument: Estrangement is based in the material relationship of production between man + his
product + those who rob him of the value in his product. His relationship with other men is decided by this
dynamic
Labour produces both men as commodities and commodities
Man devalued
+ becomes a
commidity.
More man produces
commodities more
this occurs
Commodity
increases in
value as men
produce more.
The workers
Labour becomes
embodied in Estrangment
Objectification of
what he
Labour
from product of Alientation
produces, and he Labour
takes less + less
reward from this
