Alienation describes the worker-to-work relationship from which attitudes derive, not a psychological trait

Evidence

The promiscuous word “alienation” has been overused and underappreciated. I am not interested here in alienation as a psychological orientation, although psychological orientations no doubt arise from alienated work. 9 Rather, alienation as used here is a concept summarizing the relationship of workers to their work, from which, we may infer, attitudes arise. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 565

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharp definitional move: alienation is the relation of workers to their work (structural), from which attitudes are inferred — not a psychological orientation.
• XREF: connects to: Some jobs alienate workers by requiring them to deny the humanity of others — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 566; Alienation accurately describes working-class privation but not general spiritual malaise — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 241; Alienation presupposes an earlier unalienated human relationship to distort

Broader Connections

• Alienation accurately describes working-class privation but not general spiritual malaise #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 241
• Alienation presupposes an earlier unalienated human relationship to distort #qualifies (0.72)