Alienation and Wellbeing

Front Cover
Alienation and Wellbeing
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 What Is Alienation?
	Introduction
	Alienation theory and medical sociology
	The Golden Age of Alienation Studies
	What is alienation?
		Product alienation
		Labour process alienation
		Other-human alienation
		Human-nature alienation
	Taking things forward
		Work takes many forms
	Conclusion
	Copyright notice
2 Responding to Criticisms of Alienation Theory
	Introduction
	Tackling the issues
		Human nature
		Humans as embodied beings
		Needs
			Human labour
			Cooperative and social
	Human consciousness
		Relationship with nature
			Towards other species alienation and why other creatures, too, must become free
	Alienation, continuity and the epistemological break
	Conclusion
3 Alienation and Wellbeing
	Introduction
	What is wellbeing?
		Towards an internally related dialectic of how alienation gets under the skin
		Wellbeing and the four expressions of alienation
	Process and product alienation
	Fellow human-being alienation
	Human-nature alienation
	Conclusion
4 Case Study: Social Workers, the Compassionate Self and Disappointed Jugglers
	Introduction
		The case study
	A brief history of British social work from parochial professionalism to audit culture
		Results and analysis
			The compassionate self and the choice of social work as a profession
		The disappointed juggler and the realities of social work
	Conclusion
	Copyright notice
5 Is Alienation Theory Still Relevant?
	Alienation today
		The transitive and intransitive dimensions of knowledge
		Neoliberalism as a machine of alienation?
	Conclusion
6 Beyond Alienation?
	Time for a new society?
	Everyday solidarities
		‘Make way for the worker’
		Juking the stats, juking the algorithm and juking alienation
		Join a trade union
	Final thoughts
References
Index