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Work As Play
Work as play is the concept of a qualitative change in human work activity. An idea does not have a single author, but is present in studies and culture. Work is usually perceived as an external obligation and play as an internal compulsion. Consequently, turning work into play is seen as the solution to the alienation of labor. Nowadays, play is increasingly integrated into human labor activities. This approach is called gamification as applied to work. Anarchism American anarchist Bob Black, in his essay ''The Abolition of Work'' called for the complete abolition of labor. The method of achieving this goal is "turning work into play". Psychology According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a broad understanding of what constitutes a game can include work. In addition, the factors for achieving a flow state desirable for labor activity are obvious characteristic of a game situation. A 2019 study showed that those who view their content creation as work had the highest levels of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alienation Of Labor
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their selves. Alienation is a consequence of the division of labour in a capitalist society, wherein a human being's life is lived as a mechanistic part of a social class. The theoretical basis of alienation is that a worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of these actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realised human being, as an economic entity this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie—who own the means of production—in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
