@article{Hahne, author = {Hahne, A.}, title = {Zur Bedeutung der Arbeit in der Marktwirtschaft}, series = {Wissenschaft vom Menschen - Science of Man. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft, M{\"u}nster (LIT Verlag), Vol. 4 (1993): Arbeit - Entfremdung - Charakter, pp. 83-93.}, journal = {Wissenschaft vom Menschen - Science of Man. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft, M{\"u}nster (LIT Verlag), Vol. 4 (1993): Arbeit - Entfremdung - Charakter, pp. 83-93.}, abstract = {>The Meaning of Work in a Market Economy<: Work has both an economic and a human value. The latter value is downplayed though in capitalist market economies, since these are based on the expropriation of labor, rather than on the self-fulfillment of the workforce. However, entrepreneurial manipulation of labor as a production factor is today tempered, to an extent at least, by an increased need for social integration within the firm or on the factory floor. From the worker's perspective too, work is not a matter a choice but of hard economic necessity. Most contracted activities performed by workers for remuneration are alienated (on several different levels). The author advances the thesis that proprietors are increasingly discovering an interest in having >self-determined< individuals on their staff. This development is, however, problematic if it means, in concrete terms, that individuals are now expected to internalize formerly external mechanisms of exploitation (a dominance-oriented culture, surveillance, ecological indifference, a technology-heavy approach). Yet this development has another aspect: it could also provide real gains in the struggle for greater onthe- job freedom. Both on the individual and collective level, it could end up giving workers greater room for maneuver.}, language = {de} }