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ALIENATION PERHAPS: THE ENTANGLEMENT OF SUFFERING AND AGENCY OF YOUNG EMPLOYEES IN CHINESE INTERNET COMPANIES
Dec. 2025 Zihuan ZHOU Highly educated young employees in Chinese internet companies experience profound alienation, yet many refuse to identify as alienated because alienation is often seen as preferable to unemployment or failure. Instead, they perceive actively alienating themselves as a strategic means of securing a place in a highly uncertain world, aligning with corporate discipline and technological regimes in hopes of achieving future autonomy. This reflects a social i


Melvin Seeman: ALIENATION STUDIES
Aug. 4, 2025 Alienation Studies: Collected Papers of Melvin Seeman, edited by Paul Seeman and Teresa Seeman and published by Springer,...


From Marx to the classroom: Understanding teacher alienation in policy contexts
Aug. 1, 2025 This article examines the phenomenon of teacher alienation through the lens of Marxist theory, exploring how capitalist and...


The Concept of Alienation and Alienation in Organizations
Aug. 1, 2025 Although the concept of alienation has been studied in the literature for years, it is a topic that has not lost its...


Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda
Aug. 1, 2025 Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways...


Between Depression and Alienation: Burnout as a Translator Category for Critical Theories
Liviu Poenaru, Aug. 1, 2025 The horizon of critical theories and their target audience (i.e., the subjects exposed to social suffering)...
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