Work, Commitment and Alienation
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Volume 46, p. 201-211
ISSN: 0020-8701
Explores changing attitudes toward work in industrial societies, drawing on data culled from previous theoretical & empirical research. In particular, the vicissitudes of the classic concepts of commitment to work & alienation from labor are analyzed in the context of: (1) different stages of industrialization, notably the shift from manufacturing to servicing; & (2) different types of industrialization, eg, socialist or entrepreneurial. 2 Photographs, 50 References. Adapted from the source document.