Machine-dominated work environments produced human alienation from organic nature.

Evidence

A slow but unidirectional alienation from the immediate daily organic relationship that had formed the basis of human experience from earliest times was occurring. Accompanying these changes were alterations in both the theories and experiential bases of social organization which had formed an integral part of the organic cosmos. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch2-4’s claim that the organic-to-mechanistic shift reconstructed nature as dead — here grounding that conceptual shift in concrete alienation from machine-dominated work environments. — connects to: Work discretion and human variety partly counteract alienation and sustain agency fealty — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 567; Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions; Industrialized labor destroys manual skill and familiarity with things — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2307 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions #exemplifies (0.80)
• Work discretion and human variety partly counteract alienation and sustain agency fealty #qualifies (0.78) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 567
• Industrialized labor destroys manual skill and familiarity with things #exemplifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2307
• Scientific quantification of nature parallels society’s reduction of humans to abstract labor power. #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 583
• Storage-unit content makes visible the human precarity beneath commodity alienation #exemplifies (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 253