Automation, Alienation, and Artificial Intelligence: A Marxist Analysis of the Modern Workplace – A Systematic Literature Review (PRISMA 2020)

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Drawing on 56 peer-reviewed studies published between 2021 and 2025 and selected using the PRISMA 2020 protocol, the review synthesises empirical and theoretical insights from sociology, critical management studies, digital labour scholarship, and Marxist political economy. The findings reveal that AI and automation intensify longstanding capitalist dynamics by embedding managerial control within algorithmic systems, expanding data-driven surveillance, restructuring value extraction, and deepening forms of worker alienation. Across sectors, technologies such as algorithmic management, robotics, generative AI, datafication infrastructures, and biometric monitoring reduce worker autonomy, obscure mechanisms of decision-making, and reorganise power asymmetries between capital and labour. The review demonstrates that Marx’s concepts—particularly alienation, surplus value, class domination, and relations of production—remain highly relevant for analysing digital labour regimes. Moreover, recent scholarship highlights emerging forms of epistemic and affective alienation unique to AI-mediated work, while studies from 2025 introduce system-level critiques of capitalist AI and computational political economy. Overall, this review provides the most comprehensive synthesis to date of Marxist analyses of AI-driven workplace transformations, offering conceptual clarity, empirical grounding, and a critical foundation for future research on labour in the digital age. Figures Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Introduction The rapid expansion of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping labour processes across the global economy. From algorithmic management in platform work to autonomous decision-making systems in traditional industries, digital technologies now structure how work is organised, evaluated, and controlled. While mainstream debates often frame AI as a driver of productivity, innovation, and economic growth, a growing body of critical scholarship argues that these transformations must also be understood through the lens of power, inequality, and political economy. In particular, Marxist theory (Marx, 1867 ), long concerned with the dynamics of labour, exploitation, and alienation provides a powerful analytical framework for examining how contemporary technologies reorganise social relations in the workplace. Marx described alienation as a multi-dimensional condition in which workers become estranged from the products they create, the labour process, their own human potential, and the social relations that bind them to others (Sayers, 2011 ). Though formulated in an industrial era dominated by mechanisation and factory production, these concepts are increasingly applied to digital labour and algorithmic control. Automation and AI (Petrosino, 2024 ) have introduced new modalities of estrangement: opaque decision systems that evaluate performance, algorithmic scheduling that reduces autonomy, data-driven surveillance that intensifies managerial oversight, and forms of digital labour that extract value from workers’ cognitive and affective capacities. These developments raise pressing questions about whether AI deepens the very contradictions Marx identified in capitalist production. Recent research also highlights how AI technologies enable new mechanisms of exploitation (Hyotylainen, 2022 ) and surplus value extraction. Through real-time monitoring, granular productivity metrics, nudging, gamification, and automated disciplinary systems, platform companies and digital employers can appropriate labour power with unprecedented efficiency (Jungtäubl et al., 2023 ). Algorithmic management restructures power relations between workers and employers, often concentrating control in software systems that are neither transparent nor accountable. At the same time, technologies marketed as empowering or “human-centred” frequently reproduce, and in some cases intensify, the alienating conditions of work. This evolving landscape demands a systematic and theoretically grounded examination of how digital technologies shape the lived realities of labour. The relevance of Marx’s theory of alienation in the twenty-first century therefore warrants renewed scrutiny. While some argue that automation heralds the end of work or the possibility of post-scarcity futures, others contend that AI entrenches historical patterns of domination, hierarchy, and commodification. A systematic review of contemporary literature can clarify these debates by synthesising empirical findings, theoretical contributions, and emerging critiques at the intersection of AI, automation, and labour. To address this need, this study conducts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) guided by five research questions: In what ways are AI and automation transforming labour processes in contemporary workplaces? How do AI-driven technologies contribute to different forms of alienation (from product, process, self, and others)? What evidence exists that AI intensifies exploitation and surplus value extraction? How has algorithmic management changed power relations between workers and employers? Does current literature suggest that Marx’s theory of alienation remains relevant in the age of AI? By synthesising insights from peer-reviewed research across sociology, critical management studies, digital labour theory, and Marxist political economy, this review illuminates how AI technologies restructure work and deepen longstanding contradictions within capitalist production. The findings contribute to contemporary debates on the future of work, offering a critical perspective on the socio-economic implications of automation (Popescu et al., 2025 ) and providing a theoretically rigorous foundation for re-examining Marx’s concept of alienation in the digital age. Methodology This study adopts a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA 2020 (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. The purpose is to systematically identify, screen, evaluate, and synthesise existing research on automation, Artificial Intelligence, and worker alienation, with analysis grounded in Marxist theory. Multiple academic databases were searched to ensure comprehensive coverage, including Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, ProQuest, and IEEE Xplore. These search strings were adjusted slightly according to the requirements of each database. Studies were included if they met several key criteria aligned with the aims of this review. First, only publications from 2021 to 2025 were considered to ensure contemporary relevance to rapid developments in AI and automation. All included studies were written in English and focused directly on the intersection of artificial intelligence or automation with labour, work, or workplace dynamics. The review prioritised research with explicit theoretical relevance, meaning the study engaged with concepts such as alienation, class, power, exploitation, or broader Marxist analysis. Only peer-reviewed journal articles were included to ensure academic quality, and the disciplinary scope was restricted to fields where labour, technology, and political economy (Koshkin & Mokretsov, 2022 ) are central namely sociology, economics, technology studies, and labour studies. Studies were excluded if they did not meet the above parameters. Non-English publications and works published before 2022 were removed to maintain linguistic consistency and analytical timeliness. Articles that did not engage with labour, work, or workplace organisation were excluded, as were studies focused solely on technical or engineering aspects of AI without any social, economic, or theoretical analysis. Non-academic materials such as opinion pieces, blogs, news articles, and magazine content were also excluded due to limited scholarly rigour. Finally, studies for which the full text was unavailable were excluded to ensure transparency and reproducibility in the review process. Figure 1 illustrates the PRISMA 2020 flow process used to identify, screen, and select studies included in this systematic literature review on automation, alienation, and artificial intelligence in the modern workplace. The diagram provides a transparent account of how records were collected, filtered, and assessed for final inclusion. During the identification stage, a total of 229 records were retrieved from multiple academic databases and search platforms, including Springer Nature (n = 115), Web of Science (n = 20), Scopus (n = 41), ProQuest (n = 19), IEEE Explorer (n = 1), Elicit (n = 7), and Consensus (n = 26). Before screening, 59 records were removed, comprising 32 duplicates, 17 book-type records, and 10 non-English publications, resulting in 170 records eligible for initial screening. In the screening stage, all 170 records were assessed by title and abstract, leading to the exclusion of 44 studies that did not meet the predefined inclusion criteria. The remaining 126 records were sought for full-text retrieval; however, 10 reports could not be accessed, leaving 116 studies for eligibility assessment. During the eligibility stage, each full-text article was evaluated using a structured rubric assessing relevance to AI and labour, theoretical grounding, methodological strength, engagement with Marxist concepts, and source credibility. A total of 60 reports were excluded, including 3 non-research papers and 57 studies that did not meet the rubric threshold distributed as follows: rubric value 5 (n = 5), rubric value 6 (n = 11), rubric value 7 (n = 13), and rubric value 8 (n = 28). Following this rigorous multi-stage review, 56 studies met all inclusion criteria and were included in the final synthesis. These studies constitute the empirical and theoretical foundation of the systematic review and directly inform the analysis of how AI and automation shape worker alienation and labour conditions under contemporary capitalism (Liang & Lipeng, 2024 ). Rubric value with 9 and 10 are selected for the final review where there were 31 and 25 research papers were identified as shown in the Fig. 2 . Following this rigorous review process, 56 studies met all inclusion criteria and were incorporated into the final synthesis. These studies form the empirical and theoretical foundation for analysing how AI and automation intersect with Marxist concepts of alienation, exploitation, and workplace power dynamics. Thematic Analysis The final set of 56 studies included in this review demonstrates exceptionally strong alignment with the analytical goals of the study, as reflected in their high rubric scores across all evaluation dimensions. On average, the papers scored 1.95 out of 2 for relevance to AI and labour , indicating that nearly all selected studies directly address the core intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and workplace transformation. The literature also exhibited a consistently strong theoretical foundation , achieving a perfect average of 2.00, reflecting a high degree of conceptual clarity and engagement with established frameworks, including Marxist political economy. Methodological quality remained robust, with an average of 1.76, showing that the majority of studies applied systematic, empirical, or analytically rigorous approaches. Furthermore, the inclusion of Marxist concepts central to this review’s theoretical orientation scored 1.76, demonstrating frequent and substantive engagement with notions of alienation, exploitation, class relations, and the dynamics of capitalist production. All papers were published in reputable, peer-reviewed venues, reflected in a perfect 2.00 average for credibility of sources . Collectively, these criteria produced an overall average score of 9.46 out of 10, confirming that the selected studies offer a highly relevant, theoretically informed, and methodologically sound foundation for analysing contemporary debates on automation, alienation, and AI in the modern workplace. An analysis of the publication years of the included studies reveals a notable upward trend in research activity over time (See Fig. 3 ). The distribution shows that the number of studies increased steadily from 2021 (8 papers) through 2023 (11 papers), with a slight decline in 2024 (9 papers). However, there is a marked surge in 2025, with 19 publications—more than double the output of most previous years. This concentration of recent work indicates that the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and worker alienation has rapidly gained scholarly attention, particularly in the last year. The sharp rise in 2025 suggests that this is an emerging and increasingly significant topic within critical labour studies and Marxist analyses of digital technologies. Figure 4 illustrates the geographical distribution of the research papers included in the review after splitting multi-country entries into their individual constituent countries. The United States accounts for the highest number of publications (12 papers), followed by China (8 papers) and the United Kingdom (7 papers), indicating that research on AI, automation, and labour is heavily concentrated in these countries. Germany shows moderate representation with 3 papers, while several other countries—including Canada, Spain, Romania, France, Indonesia, and Italy contribute two papers each. The remaining countries, such as Turkey, Greece, India, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Norway, Israel, Colombia, Hong Kong, and others, each appear once, reflecting a more dispersed but globally diverse interest in the topic. Overall, the distribution suggests that scholarship on AI, labour, and alienation is primarily driven by research communities in technologically advanced and industrially developed nations, while contributions from the Global South remain comparatively limited. This regional distribution clearly shows that most of the scholarly work on AI, labour, and alienation is concentrated in Europe and Asia, reflecting strong academic engagement in these regions. The income-level analysis of the included studies reveals a clear concentration of research originating from high-income economies, which account for approximately two-thirds (66.7%) of all publications in the dataset. This indicates that scholarly engagement with the themes of artificial intelligence, automation, labour, and alienation is predominantly driven by countries with advanced technological infrastructures, mature research ecosystems, and well-established academic institutions. In contrast, upper-middle-income economies contribute around 25%, while lower-middle-income economies represent less than 10% of the literature, highlighting a comparatively limited presence. This imbalance suggests that while the impacts of AI and automation are global, the academic discourse analysing these transformations remains heavily shaped by researchers in high-income contexts, where technological deployment is more widespread and resources for critical inquiry are more readily available. Table 1 Key Concepts Discussed with Marxist Theme Marxist Theme Key Concepts Included Labour, Value & Exploitation (Biondi, 2023 ) Labour theory of value; surplus value; primitive accumulation; immaterial labour; reserve army of labour; surplus extraction; productive forces; commodification Alienation & Human Essence (Sidorkin, 2025 ) (Furendal & Jebari, 2023 ; Russo et al., 2025 ) Alienation; technological alienation; reification; recognition; species-being; epistemic alienation; futurelessness; loss of autonomy; estrangement Capitalism & Technological Change (Yang, 2025 ) (Reeves & Sinnicks, 2023 ) Digital capitalism; surveillance capitalism; technological determinism; capital vs labour power; fettering thesis; capitalist modernity; racial capitalism; coloniality Relations of Production (Burns, 2024 ) (Dung, 2025 ) (Minotakis, 2024 ) Class struggle; class antagonism; relations of production; ideology critique; structural inequality; political economy of labour Labour Process & Managerial Control (Isbah, 2022 ) (Gauthier, 2025 ) Labour process theory; digital Taylorism; algorithmic management; managerial control; coercion; deskilling; social factory; industrial automation Political Economy of AI (He & Li, 2025 ) Socialist computation; capitalist logic of harm; epistemic enclosure; semiocapitalism; primitive accumulation in AI; crisis of measure; platform extraction Critical Theory & Emancipation (Saha, 2024 ) Critical theory; labour emancipation; crisis of meaning; Adorno’s administered world; Frankfurt School critique; liberatory alienation As shown in Fig. 7 , the thematic analysis of the selected literature reveals that contemporary Marxist scholarship on AI and labour is strongly centred around the core concerns of alienation and human essence, which emerged as the most frequently addressed theme (n = 54). This demonstrates that the rapid automation of labour processes continues to revive classical Marxist debates about the estrangement of workers from their labour, products, and species-being in digitally mediated workplaces. Closely following this, a substantial number of studies engage with capitalism and technological change (n = 47), showing that AI is widely conceptualised as an extension of capitalist automation aimed at productivity gains, efficiency, and new forms of value extraction. Themes related to labour, value and exploitation (n = 41) and labour process and managerial control (n = 38) also feature prominently, indicating that many scholars analyse AI-driven management systems, algorithmic control, and digital Taylorism through the lens of surplus extraction and workplace domination. Discussions of relations of production (n = 33) and the political economy of AI (n = 29) further highlight that AI is increasingly studied as a socio-economic institution that reshapes class relations, intensifies commodification, and reorganises labour markets. Finally, the literature shows a growing but comparatively smaller body of work on critical theory and emancipation (n = 22), examining how AI may reproduce structural inequalities while also exploring alternative, emancipatory, or post-capitalist possibilities. Overall, the chart underscores that Marxist analyses of AI overwhelmingly prioritise structural critiques alienation, exploitation, class relations, and capitalist accumulation indicating a strong alignment between contemporary concerns in digital capitalism and foundational Marxist concepts. This distribution confirms that the selected papers collectively provide a theoretically rich and highly relevant body of evidence for understanding how AI reconfigures labour and social relations in the modern workplace. Key Findings Year-Wise Synthesis of Key Findings Research published between 2021 and 2025 reveals a steadily intensifying engagement with Marxist analyses of AI, automation, and labour, with clear thematic evolution across years. Early work in 2021 focused primarily on foundational diagnoses of alienation and algorithmic control. (Jarrahi et al., 2021 ) showed that algorithmic management restructures power relations in digital labour, while (Xu & Ye, 2021 ) demonstrated how robotisation in Chinese factories deepens deskilling and managerial dominance. Other studies ((Mrvos, 2021 ; Murphy & Largacha-Martínez, 2021 ; Øversveen, 2021 ; Skotnicki & Nielsen, 2021 ) strengthened the conceptual groundwork by updating alienation theory and exposing emerging forms of digital precarity. (Z. Zhang, 2021 ) argues that although AI has produced unprecedented material progress, it has simultaneously intensified human psychological anxiety, making a renewed examination of its future impacts essential. Research expanded in 2022, shifting from diagnosis to political-economic critique: (Hilstob & Massie, 2022 ) analysed automation as a politically mediated process, (Parr, 2022 ) emphasised state responsibility for technological unemployment, and (Kelly, 2022 ; Satran, 2022 ) identified loss of autonomy in the automation of psychotherapy. Studies such as (Hyötyläinen, 2022 ) and (Hincu & Baghiu, 2022 ) integrated broader sociological and existential perspectives, indicating methodological diversification compared with 2021. By 2023, the literature matured into deeper engagements with digital capitalism, value extraction, and ideological reproduction. (Gauthier, 2023), (Neschen, 2023 ) and (Morreale et al., 2023 ) examined how platform systems reshape recognition, self-consciousness, and “unwitting labour,” while (Borg, 2023 ) (Jones, 2023 ) and (Biondi, 2023 ) broadened debates on work redefinition and structural precarity. (Sun, 2023 ; Tacheva & Ramasubramanian, 2023 ) extended Marxist critiques to include racial capitalism, demonstrating a more intersectional turn in the literature compared with prior years. Research published in 2024 displayed even greater theoretical sophistication and sectoral diversity. (ArifKosar, 2024 ), (Burns, 2024 ), and (Bielskis, 2024 ) revisited Marxist categories to analyse contemporary automation and meaning-making at work, while (Saha, 2024 ) and (Chatterjee, 2024 ) examined datafication and AI governance through the lens of dispossession, empire, and global political economy. These works show a shift from descriptive studies toward structural and ideological analyses of AI-driven capitalism. The scholarship in 2025 marks the most advanced stage in theoretical complexity, showing extensive engagement with value theory, digital alienation, class restructuring, and computational political economy. Studies such as (Cheng, 2025 ), (Bayraktar et al., 2025 ), (L. Wang, 2025 ) and (Hart et al., 2025 ) reinterpret alienation, harm, and labour precarity in highly automated environments, while (He & Li, 2025 ), (Cruz-Aguilar, 2025 ), and (Yang, 2025 ) analyse how AI transforms value production, epistemic structures, and capitalist contradictions. Research on socialist computation, digital Taylorism, and epistemic enclosure seen in works such as the (Al-Asadi et al., 2025 ; Capitani, 2025 ), (Yuan, 2025 ) and the (Liu, 2025 ) indicates a decisive shift toward system-level critiques of AI under advanced capitalism, surpassing the conceptual and empirical scope of earlier years. Over the five-year period, the literature shows a clear evolution in Marxist analyses of AI and labour. Studies in 2021 focused on foundational issues of alienation and algorithmic control, while 2022 introduced stronger political-economic critiques and sector-specific cases. Research in 2023 broadened toward digital capitalism, platform work, and racialised patterns of value extraction. By 2024, the scholarship deepened theoretically, engaging with global political economy and digital dispossession. The most advanced work appeared in 2025, offering systemic critiques of capitalist AI, value production, and emerging epistemic structures. Forms of Alienation and Key Findings Across the studies examined, a wide range of forms of alienation emerge, reflecting the diverse ways AI and automation reshape labour under contemporary capitalism. Many papers identify loss of autonomy and managerial domination as core forms of alienation, particularly in environments governed by algorithmic management (M. M. Zhang et al., 2025 ). For instance, (Hilstob & Massie, 2022 ) show that workers experience precarity and diminished control as employers adopt AI-enabled monitoring, while (Vredenburgh, 2022 ) finds that opacity in algorithmic decision-making undermines worker understanding and erodes trust in workplace governance systems. (Bittle et al., 2025 ; Qin, 2025 ) deepen the analysis of alienation by showing how extreme structural conditions of work marked by precarity, exploitation, and the erosion of dignity can culminate in work-related suicide, framing it not as an individual pathology but as a systemic form of social and existential alienation produced by contemporary capitalist labour regimes. Several studies describe fetishization and mystification of technology, where workers become estranged from the mechanisms that structure their labour. (Hanon, 2022 ; Tang & Chen, 2025 ) critiques techno-utopian narratives that mask the capitalist logics driving automation, and (Rellihan, 2023 ) highlights how generative AI conceals underlying exploitation by presenting itself as an autonomous “creative” force. A second cluster of studies emphasises data-driven and platform-mediated alienation, documenting how AI-enabled surveillance and extraction of behavioural data deepen exploitation. (Skotnicki & Nielsen, 2021 ) demonstrates that automation anxieties reflect structural capitalist contradictions rather than mere technological disruption, while (Morreale et al., 2023 ) (B. Wang et al., 2024 ) describe how everyday digital interactions become “unwitting labour” that trains AI models, contributing to invisible forms of surplus value extraction. Other research documents deskilling and labour devaluation, especially in automated production environments. (Xu & Ye, 2021 ) shows that robotised factories intensify technical control, eroding worker skill and agency, and (Satran, 2022 ) demonstrates how mental-health professionals experience craft-to-labour degradation as psychotherapy becomes increasingly standardised through automation. In addition to economic and technological determinants, several papers foreground social and existential alienation. (Neschen, 2023 ) argues that digital platforms disrupt recognition relations, constraining workers’ sense of self and interpersonal meaning, while (Burns, 2024 ) and (Bielskis, 2024 ) highlight how AI-mediated labour processes undermine dignity, purpose, and opportunities for meaningful work. A growing number of works also conceptualise structural and systemic alienation, focusing on how capitalist relations shape the deployment of AI. (Saha, 2024 ) shows how datafication produces forms of dispossession through continuous extraction of personal and behavioural information, (Skotnicki & Nielsen, 2021 ) introduce the idea of “futurelessness” as a systemic alienation under financialised digital capitalism, and (Yang, 2025 ) illustrates how capitalist AI generates epistemic enclosure and new forms of class domination. Taken together, the key findings from the dataset reveal that alienation in the AI-driven workplace is multidimensional and structurally embedded, spanning managerial control, data extraction, technological mediation, deskilling, and broader political-economic forces. These patterns demonstrate that while AI introduces novel mechanisms of estrangement particularly through algorithmic governance and datafication the underlying dynamics remain consistent with Marxist analyses of capitalist labour, where technological development amplifies pre-existing contradictions between capital, labour, and human flourishing. Key Findings by AI and Automation Type Across the analysed studies, diverse forms of artificial intelligence and automation algorithmic management, robotic systems, datafication infrastructures, generative AI, and wearable technologies produce convergent transformations in labour that reinforce core Marxian dynamics of control, commodification, and alienation. Despite their technical variation, these systems are deployed within capitalist relations of production and systematically reorganise labour in ways that deepen managerial authority, intensify value extraction, and extend the subsumption of workers under data-driven modes of governance. A substantial segment of the literature concentrates on algorithmic management, particularly in platform-mediated work environments. These studies show that algorithmic decision-making embeds managerial power within opaque computational systems that diminish worker autonomy and obscure channels of contestation ((Jarrahi et al., 2021 ) (Isbah, 2022 ). Automated scheduling, performance scoring, and behavioural surveillance operate as digital Taylorism, replacing interpersonal supervision with constant, data-intensive oversight (Hilstob & Massie, 2022 ). This leads to heightened precarity and reconfigures workplace authority in favour of capital, producing intensified forms of alienation rooted in reduced agency and informational asymmetry. Research examining robotic and intelligent automation demonstrates similar patterns in industrial settings, where the introduction of robotic systems reorganises the labour process around machine logic rather than human expertise. Studies of robotised factories ((Xu & Ye, 2021 ) document deskilling, displacement from meaningful tasks, and increased managerial control. Complementary analyses emphasise the broader social consequences of labour-saving technologies, including heightened marginality among displaced workers and the deepening of economic precarity (Hyötyläinen, 2022 ). These findings reflect Marx’s analysis of machinery as a tool for extracting relative surplus value and disciplining labour. Another prominent stream of research analyses datafication and surveillance-driven AI, emphasising the shift from wage labour to data-based value extraction. Scholars show that AI systems rely on “unwitting labour,” in which user behaviour is appropriated to train algorithms without compensation (Morreale et al., 2023 ). This is conceptualised as a contemporary form of accumulation by dispossession, wherein personal data becomes a new site of surplus extraction (Saha, 2024 ). Additional studies highlight how predictive policing, algorithmic scoring, and AI governance structures embed what (Hart et al., 2025 ) term a “logic of harm,” reinforcing structural inequalities and extending capitalist domination through computational means. Parallel work on generative AI reveals that systems such as large language models obscure the human labour that underpins their training data and reshape the organisation of cognitive and creative labour (Plantin, 2021 ). Scholars argue that generative AI mystifies relations of production by presenting machine outputs as autonomous ((Rellihan, 2023 ); (Chatterjee, 2024 ). At an epistemic level, generative technologies alter the foundations of scientific and creative work (Cruz-Aguilar, 2025 ), while Marxist and Ricardian analyses demonstrate shifts in labour demand and value production under increasingly automated knowledge regimes (Liu, 2025 ). Emerging research also addresses wearable AI and biometric surveillance, showing how workplace monitoring extends into workers’ bodies through physiological data extraction and algorithmic evaluation. Smartwatch-based productivity systems exemplify the fusion of bodily monitoring with labour discipline, intensifying alienation by transforming the body into a direct site of data capture and managerial oversight (Patrissia & Husni, 2025 ). Taken together, the findings illustrate that contemporary AI systems regardless of form operate primarily to reorganise labour relations in favour of capital. They automate managerial control, intensify surveillance, deepen deskilling, and produce new modalities of alienation that permeate cognitive, social, and bodily dimensions of work. This convergence underscores the enduring relevance of Marxist analysis for understanding the political economy of AI-driven transformations in the workplace. Key Marxist Concepts in Relation to Key Findings Across the analysed literature, Marxist concepts such as alienation, surplus value, class struggle, relations of production, and the labour theory of value provide a coherent framework for interpreting how AI and automation reshape contemporary labour. These concepts illuminate how technological systems function not as neutral innovations but as instruments embedded within capitalist social relations. By grounding their analyses in Marxian theory, scholars demonstrate that the impacts of AI ranging from algorithmic management to datafication can be understood as extensions of longstanding contradictions between labour and capital (Jarrahi et al., 2021 ). The concept of alienation is the most widely applied and offers critical insight into the transformations observed across labour contexts. Studies of algorithmic management highlight how automated supervision erodes worker autonomy and embeds managerial authority within opaque computational systems (Vredenburgh, 2022 ). Research in robotised and automated environments shows how deskilling, displacement, and the loss of craft-based agency intensify estrangement from the labour process (Xu & Ye, 2021 ). In platform and datafied labour, alienation emerges through continuous surveillance, behavioural extraction, and the appropriation of user activity as “unwitting labour” for AI model training (Morreale et al., 2023 ). Theoretical contributions extend alienation beyond the workplace, conceptualising structural and existential forms including futurelessness and dispossession within digital capitalism ((Skotnicki & Nielsen, 2021 )(Burns, 2024 ). A second set of studies employs concepts of surplus value, primitive accumulation, and digital dispossession to explain new extractive logics embedded in AI systems. Scholars show that AI generates surplus not only from wage labour but also from data captured through everyday interactions, aligning with Marxian analyses of expanded surplus extraction and Harvey’s notion of accumulation by dispossession (Saha 2024 ; Morreale et al. 2023 ). Similarly, research grounded in the labour theory of value demonstrates how automation restructures value creation, particularly within knowledge and scientific labour (He & Li 2025 ; Cruz-Aguilar 2025 ). Finally, concepts such as class struggle, relations of production, and capitalist contradictions frame findings on structural power shifts resulting from AI deployment. Studies argue that AI intensifies managerial control, consolidates corporate dominance, and contributes to class recomposition through deskilling and displacement (Hanon, 2022 ). These analyses reaffirm that AI evolves within capitalist imperatives, deepening systemic contradictions rather than resolving them. Conclusion and Research Gaps This systematic review shows that AI and automation are not merely technical innovations but deeply political-economic forces that intensify long-standing contradictions within capitalist labour relations. Across the 56 studies analysed, a consistent pattern emerges: AI systems whether embedded in algorithmic management, robotic automation, generative models, or datafication infrastructures extend managerial control, deepen worker alienation, and reorganise the labour process around the imperatives of capital accumulation. Findings across multiple years demonstrate an evolution from early analyses of algorithmic control (2021), to political-economic critiques of automation (2022), to engagements with digital capitalism and value extraction (2023), and finally to advanced system-level critiques of capitalist AI (2024–2025). Despite their technical diversity, the reviewed technologies produce strikingly convergent outcomes: erosion of autonomy, intensification of surveillance, deskilling, epistemic enclosure, and new modalities of exploitation anchored in the extraction of behavioural and cognitive data. At the same time, the review reveals several critical research gaps. First, existing scholarship is heavily concentrated in high-income economies, leaving limited empirical understanding of how AI reshapes labour in the Global South particularly in contexts of informality, precarious migrant labour, and resource-poor institutional settings. Second, most studies focus on individual-level or organisational effects, while systematic analyses of sector-wide and macroeconomic transformations remain underdeveloped. Third, the literature lacks longitudinal research tracking how alienation evolves as workers adapt to automated systems over time. Fourth, while many studies document harms, few engage with resistance, collective action, or emerging forms of digital labour organising, which are essential for understanding class struggle under algorithmic capitalism. Fifth, despite growing interest in epistemic and affective alienation, empirical studies examining psychological and emotional impacts of AI-driven work remain scarce. 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rapid expansion of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping labour processes across the global economy. From algorithmic management in platform work to autonomous decision-making systems in traditional industries, digital technologies now structure how work is organised, evaluated, and controlled. While mainstream debates often frame AI as a driver of productivity, innovation, and economic growth, a growing body of critical scholarship argues that these transformations must also be understood through the lens of power, inequality, and political economy. In particular, Marxist theory (Marx, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR31\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e1867\u003c/span\u003e), long concerned with the dynamics of labour, exploitation, and alienation provides a powerful analytical framework for examining how contemporary technologies reorganise social relations in the workplace.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarx described alienation as a multi-dimensional condition in which workers become estranged from the products they create, the labour process, their own human potential, and the social relations that bind them to others (Sayers, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR49\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2011\u003c/span\u003e). Though formulated in an industrial era dominated by mechanisation and factory production, these concepts are increasingly applied to digital labour and algorithmic control. Automation and AI (Petrosino, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR40\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) have introduced new modalities of estrangement: opaque decision systems that evaluate performance, algorithmic scheduling that reduces autonomy, data-driven surveillance that intensifies managerial oversight, and forms of digital labour that extract value from workers\u0026rsquo; cognitive and affective capacities. These developments raise pressing questions about whether AI deepens the very contradictions Marx identified in capitalist production.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecent research also highlights how AI technologies enable new mechanisms of exploitation (Hyotylainen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR22\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) and surplus value extraction. Through real-time monitoring, granular productivity metrics, nudging, gamification, and automated disciplinary systems, platform companies and digital employers can appropriate labour power with unprecedented efficiency (Jungt\u0026auml;ubl et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR26\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e). Algorithmic management restructures power relations between workers and employers, often concentrating control in software systems that are neither transparent nor accountable. At the same time, technologies marketed as empowering or \u0026ldquo;human-centred\u0026rdquo; frequently reproduce, and in some cases intensify, the alienating conditions of work. This evolving landscape demands a systematic and theoretically grounded examination of how digital technologies shape the lived realities of labour.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe relevance of Marx\u0026rsquo;s theory of alienation in the twenty-first century therefore warrants renewed scrutiny. While some argue that automation heralds the end of work or the possibility of post-scarcity futures, others contend that AI entrenches historical patterns of domination, hierarchy, and commodification. A systematic review of contemporary literature can clarify these debates by synthesising empirical findings, theoretical contributions, and emerging critiques at the intersection of AI, automation, and labour.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo address this need, this study conducts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) guided by five research questions:\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003col\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn what ways are AI and automation transforming labour processes in contemporary workplaces?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow do AI-driven technologies contribute to different forms of alienation (from product, process, self, and others)?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat evidence exists that AI intensifies exploitation and surplus value extraction?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow has algorithmic management changed power relations between workers and employers?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes current literature suggest that Marx\u0026rsquo;s theory of alienation remains relevant in the age of AI?\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003c/span\u003e \u003c/ol\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy synthesising insights from peer-reviewed research across sociology, critical management studies, digital labour theory, and Marxist political economy, this review illuminates how AI technologies restructure work and deepen longstanding contradictions within capitalist production. The findings contribute to contemporary debates on the future of work, offering a critical perspective on the socio-economic implications of automation (Popescu et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR42\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) and providing a theoretically rigorous foundation for re-examining Marx\u0026rsquo;s concept of alienation in the digital age.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"header":"Methodology","content":"\u003cp\u003eThis study adopts a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA 2020 (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe purpose is to systematically identify, screen, evaluate, and synthesise existing research on automation, Artificial Intelligence, and worker alienation, with analysis grounded in Marxist theory.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultiple academic databases were searched to ensure comprehensive coverage, including Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, ProQuest, and IEEE Xplore.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cimg 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width=\"609\" height=\"104\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese search strings were adjusted slightly according to the requirements of each database.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudies were included if they met several key criteria aligned with the aims of this review. First, only publications from 2021 to 2025 were considered to ensure contemporary relevance to rapid developments in AI and automation. All included studies were written in English and focused directly on the intersection of artificial intelligence or automation with labour, work, or workplace dynamics. The review prioritised research with explicit theoretical relevance, meaning the study engaged with concepts such as alienation, class, power, exploitation, or broader Marxist analysis. Only peer-reviewed journal articles were included to ensure academic quality, and the disciplinary scope was restricted to fields where labour, technology, and political economy (Koshkin \u0026amp; Mokretsov, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR28\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) are central namely sociology, economics, technology studies, and labour studies.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudies were excluded if they did not meet the above parameters. Non-English publications and works published before 2022 were removed to maintain linguistic consistency and analytical timeliness. Articles that did not engage with labour, work, or workplace organisation were excluded, as were studies focused solely on technical or engineering aspects of AI without any social, economic, or theoretical analysis. Non-academic materials such as opinion pieces, blogs, news articles, and magazine content were also excluded due to limited scholarly rigour. Finally, studies for which the full text was unavailable were excluded to ensure transparency and reproducibility in the review process.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure \u003cspan refid=\"Fig1\" class=\"InternalRef\"\u003e1\u003c/span\u003e illustrates the PRISMA 2020 flow process used to identify, screen, and select studies included in this systematic literature review on automation, alienation, and artificial intelligence in the modern workplace. The diagram provides a transparent account of how records were collected, filtered, and assessed for final inclusion.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the identification stage, a total of 229 records were retrieved from multiple academic databases and search platforms, including Springer Nature (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;115), Web of Science (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;20), Scopus (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;41), ProQuest (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;19), IEEE Explorer (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;1), Elicit (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;7), and Consensus (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;26). Before screening, 59 records were removed, comprising 32 duplicates, 17 book-type records, and 10 non-English publications, resulting in 170 records eligible for initial screening.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the screening stage, all 170 records were assessed by title and abstract, leading to the exclusion of 44 studies that did not meet the predefined inclusion criteria. The remaining 126 records were sought for full-text retrieval; however, 10 reports could not be accessed, leaving 116 studies for eligibility assessment.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the eligibility stage, each full-text article was evaluated using a structured rubric assessing relevance to AI and labour, theoretical grounding, methodological strength, engagement with Marxist concepts, and source credibility. A total of 60 reports were excluded, including 3 non-research papers and 57 studies that did not meet the rubric threshold distributed as follows: rubric value 5 (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;5), rubric value 6 (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;11), rubric value 7 (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;13), and rubric value 8 (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;28).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing this rigorous multi-stage review, 56 studies met all inclusion criteria and were included in the final synthesis. These studies constitute the empirical and theoretical foundation of the systematic review and directly inform the analysis of how AI and automation shape worker alienation and labour conditions under contemporary capitalism (Liang \u0026amp; Lipeng, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR29\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRubric value with 9 and 10 are selected for the final review where there were 31 and 25 research papers were identified as shown in the Fig.\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan refid=\"Fig2\" class=\"InternalRef\"\u003e2\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing this rigorous review process, 56 studies met all inclusion criteria and were incorporated into the final synthesis. These studies form the empirical and theoretical foundation for analysing how AI and automation intersect with Marxist concepts of alienation, exploitation, and workplace power dynamics.\u003c/p\u003e "},{"header":"Thematic Analysis","content":"\u003cdiv id=\"Sec3\" class=\"Section2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final set of 56 studies included in this review demonstrates exceptionally strong alignment with the analytical goals of the study, as reflected in their high rubric scores across all evaluation dimensions. On average, the papers scored 1.95 out of 2 for \u003cem\u003erelevance to AI and labour\u003c/em\u003e, indicating that nearly all selected studies directly address the core intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and workplace transformation. The literature also exhibited a consistently strong \u003cem\u003etheoretical foundation\u003c/em\u003e, achieving a perfect average of 2.00, reflecting a high degree of conceptual clarity and engagement with established frameworks, including Marxist political economy. Methodological quality remained robust, with an average of 1.76, showing that the majority of studies applied systematic, empirical, or analytically rigorous approaches. Furthermore, the inclusion of \u003cem\u003eMarxist concepts\u003c/em\u003e central to this review\u0026rsquo;s theoretical orientation scored 1.76, demonstrating frequent and substantive engagement with notions of alienation, exploitation, class relations, and the dynamics of capitalist production. All papers were published in reputable, peer-reviewed venues, reflected in a perfect 2.00 average for \u003cem\u003ecredibility of sources\u003c/em\u003e. Collectively, these criteria produced an overall average score of 9.46 out of 10, confirming that the selected studies offer a highly relevant, theoretically informed, and methodologically sound foundation for analysing contemporary debates on automation, alienation, and AI in the modern workplace.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn analysis of the publication years of the included studies reveals a notable upward trend in research activity over time (See Fig.\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan refid=\"Fig3\" class=\"InternalRef\"\u003e3\u003c/span\u003e). The distribution shows that the number of studies increased steadily from 2021 (8 papers) through 2023 (11 papers), with a slight decline in 2024 (9 papers). However, there is a marked surge in 2025, with 19 publications\u0026mdash;more than double the output of most previous years. This concentration of recent work indicates that the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and worker alienation has rapidly gained scholarly attention, particularly in the last year. The sharp rise in 2025 suggests that this is an emerging and increasingly significant topic within critical labour studies and Marxist analyses of digital technologies.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure \u003cspan refid=\"Fig4\" class=\"InternalRef\"\u003e4\u003c/span\u003e illustrates the geographical distribution of the research papers included in the review after splitting multi-country entries into their individual constituent countries. The United States accounts for the highest number of publications (12 papers), followed by China (8 papers) and the United Kingdom (7 papers), indicating that research on AI, automation, and labour is heavily concentrated in these countries. Germany shows moderate representation with 3 papers, while several other countries\u0026mdash;including Canada, Spain, Romania, France, Indonesia, and Italy contribute two papers each. The remaining countries, such as Turkey, Greece, India, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Norway, Israel, Colombia, Hong Kong, and others, each appear once, reflecting a more dispersed but globally diverse interest in the topic. Overall, the distribution suggests that scholarship on AI, labour, and alienation is primarily driven by research communities in technologically advanced and industrially developed nations, while contributions from the Global South remain comparatively limited.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis regional distribution clearly shows that most of the scholarly work on AI, labour, and alienation is concentrated in Europe and Asia, reflecting strong academic engagement in these regions.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe income-level analysis of the included studies reveals a clear concentration of research originating from high-income economies, which account for approximately two-thirds (66.7%) of all publications in the dataset. This indicates that scholarly engagement with the themes of artificial intelligence, automation, labour, and alienation is predominantly driven by countries with advanced technological infrastructures, mature research ecosystems, and well-established academic institutions. In contrast, upper-middle-income economies contribute around 25%, while lower-middle-income economies represent less than 10% of the literature, highlighting a comparatively limited presence. This imbalance suggests that while the impacts of AI and automation are global, the academic discourse analysing these transformations remains heavily shaped by researchers in high-income contexts, where technological deployment is more widespread and resources for critical inquiry are more readily available.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"gridtable\"\u003e\u003ctable float=\"Yes\" id=\"Tab1\" border=\"1\"\u003e \u003ccaption language=\"En\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"CaptionNumber\"\u003eTable 1\u003c/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"CaptionContent\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Concepts Discussed with Marxist Theme\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/div\u003e \u003c/caption\u003e \u003ccolgroup cols=\"2\"\u003e \u003cdiv align=\"left\" class=\"colspec\" colname=\"c1\" colnum=\"1\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e \u003cdiv align=\"left\" class=\"colspec\" colname=\"c2\" colnum=\"2\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e \u003cthead\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003cth align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Theme\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/th\u003e \u003cth align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Concepts Included\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/th\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003c/thead\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabour, Value \u0026amp; Exploitation (Biondi, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR5\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabour theory of value; surplus value; primitive accumulation; immaterial labour; reserve army of labour; surplus extraction; productive forces; commodification\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlienation \u0026amp; Human Essence (Sidorkin, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR50\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) (Furendal \u0026amp; Jebari, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR14\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e; Russo et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR46\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlienation; technological alienation; reification; recognition; species-being; epistemic alienation; futurelessness; loss of autonomy; estrangement\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalism \u0026amp; Technological Change (Yang, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR59\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) (Reeves \u0026amp; Sinnicks, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR44\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital capitalism; surveillance capitalism; technological determinism; capital vs labour power; fettering thesis; capitalist modernity; racial capitalism; coloniality\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelations of Production (Burns, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR8\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) (Dung, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR13\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) (Minotakis, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR32\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass struggle; class antagonism; relations of production; ideology critique; structural inequality; political economy of labour\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabour Process \u0026amp; Managerial Control (Isbah, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR23\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) (Gauthier, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR15\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabour process theory; digital Taylorism; algorithmic management; managerial control; coercion; deskilling; social factory; industrial automation\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Economy of AI (He \u0026amp; Li, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR18\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocialist computation; capitalist logic of harm; epistemic enclosure; semiocapitalism; primitive accumulation in AI; crisis of measure; platform extraction\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Theory \u0026amp; Emancipation (Saha, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR47\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd align=\"left\" colname=\"c2\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical theory; labour emancipation; crisis of meaning; Adorno\u0026rsquo;s administered world; Frankfurt School critique; liberatory alienation\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/td\u003e \u003c/tr\u003e \u003c/tbody\u003e \u003c/colgroup\u003e \u003c/table\u003e\u003c/div\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs shown in Fig.\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan refid=\"Fig7\" class=\"InternalRef\"\u003e7\u003c/span\u003e, the thematic analysis of the selected literature reveals that contemporary Marxist scholarship on AI and labour is strongly centred around the core concerns of alienation and human essence, which emerged as the most frequently addressed theme (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;54). This demonstrates that the rapid automation of labour processes continues to revive classical Marxist debates about the estrangement of workers from their labour, products, and species-being in digitally mediated workplaces. Closely following this, a substantial number of studies engage with capitalism and technological change (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;47), showing that AI is widely conceptualised as an extension of capitalist automation aimed at productivity gains, efficiency, and new forms of value extraction.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThemes related to labour, value and exploitation (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;41) and labour process and managerial control (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;38) also feature prominently, indicating that many scholars analyse AI-driven management systems, algorithmic control, and digital Taylorism through the lens of surplus extraction and workplace domination. Discussions of relations of production (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;33) and the political economy of AI (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;29) further highlight that AI is increasingly studied as a socio-economic institution that reshapes class relations, intensifies commodification, and reorganises labour markets. Finally, the literature shows a growing but comparatively smaller body of work on critical theory and emancipation (n\u0026thinsp;=\u0026thinsp;22), examining how AI may reproduce structural inequalities while also exploring alternative, emancipatory, or post-capitalist possibilities.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverall, the chart underscores that Marxist analyses of AI overwhelmingly prioritise structural critiques alienation, exploitation, class relations, and capitalist accumulation indicating a strong alignment between contemporary concerns in digital capitalism and foundational Marxist concepts. This distribution confirms that the selected papers collectively provide a theoretically rich and highly relevant body of evidence for understanding how AI reconfigures labour and social relations in the modern workplace.\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/div\u003e"},{"header":"Key Findings","content":"\u003cdiv id=\"Sec5\" class=\"Section2\"\u003e \u003ch2\u003eYear-Wise Synthesis of Key Findings\u003c/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch published between 2021 and 2025 reveals a steadily intensifying engagement with Marxist analyses of AI, automation, and labour, with clear thematic evolution across years. Early work in 2021 focused primarily on foundational diagnoses of alienation and algorithmic control. (Jarrahi et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR24\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) showed that algorithmic management restructures power relations in digital labour, while (Xu \u0026amp; Ye, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR58\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) demonstrated how robotisation in Chinese factories deepens deskilling and managerial dominance. Other studies ((Mrvos, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR34\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e; Murphy \u0026amp; Largacha-Mart\u0026iacute;nez, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR35\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e; \u0026Oslash;versveen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR37\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e; Skotnicki \u0026amp; Nielsen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR51\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) strengthened the conceptual groundwork by updating alienation theory and exposing emerging forms of digital precarity. (Z. Zhang, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR62\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) argues that although AI has produced unprecedented material progress, it has simultaneously intensified human psychological anxiety, making a renewed examination of its future impacts essential. Research expanded in 2022, shifting from diagnosis to political-economic critique: (Hilstob \u0026amp; Massie, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR19\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) analysed automation as a politically mediated process, (Parr, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR38\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) emphasised state responsibility for technological unemployment, and (Kelly, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR27\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e; Satran, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR48\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) identified loss of autonomy in the automation of psychotherapy. Studies such as (Hy\u0026ouml;tyl\u0026auml;inen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR21\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) and (Hincu \u0026amp; Baghiu, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR20\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) integrated broader sociological and existential perspectives, indicating methodological diversification compared with 2021.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 2023, the literature matured into deeper engagements with digital capitalism, value extraction, and ideological reproduction. (Gauthier, 2023), (Neschen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR36\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) and (Morreale et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR33\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) examined how platform systems reshape recognition, self-consciousness, and \u0026ldquo;unwitting labour,\u0026rdquo; while (Borg, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR7\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) (Jones, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR25\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) and (Biondi, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR5\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) broadened debates on work redefinition and structural precarity. (Sun, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR52\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e; Tacheva \u0026amp; Ramasubramanian, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR53\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) extended Marxist critiques to include racial capitalism, demonstrating a more intersectional turn in the literature compared with prior years. Research published in 2024 displayed even greater theoretical sophistication and sectoral diversity. (ArifKosar, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR2\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e), (Burns, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR8\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e), and (Bielskis, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR4\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) revisited Marxist categories to analyse contemporary automation and meaning-making at work, while (Saha, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR47\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) and (Chatterjee, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR10\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) examined datafication and AI governance through the lens of dispossession, empire, and global political economy. These works show a shift from descriptive studies toward structural and ideological analyses of AI-driven capitalism.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scholarship in 2025 marks the most advanced stage in theoretical complexity, showing extensive engagement with value theory, digital alienation, class restructuring, and computational political economy. Studies such as (Cheng, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR11\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), (Bayraktar et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR3\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), (L. Wang, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR57\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) and (Hart et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR17\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) reinterpret alienation, harm, and labour precarity in highly automated environments, while (He \u0026amp; Li, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR18\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), (Cruz-Aguilar, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR12\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), and (Yang, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR59\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) analyse how AI transforms value production, epistemic structures, and capitalist contradictions. Research on socialist computation, digital Taylorism, and epistemic enclosure seen in works such as the (Al-Asadi et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR1\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e; Capitani, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR9\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), (Yuan, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR60\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) and the (Liu, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR30\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) indicates a decisive shift toward system-level critiques of AI under advanced capitalism, surpassing the conceptual and empirical scope of earlier years.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the five-year period, the literature shows a clear evolution in Marxist analyses of AI and labour. Studies in 2021 focused on foundational issues of alienation and algorithmic control, while 2022 introduced stronger political-economic critiques and sector-specific cases. Research in 2023 broadened toward digital capitalism, platform work, and racialised patterns of value extraction. By 2024, the scholarship deepened theoretically, engaging with global political economy and digital dispossession. The most advanced work appeared in 2025, offering systemic critiques of capitalist AI, value production, and emerging epistemic structures.\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eForms of Alienation and Key Findings\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the studies examined, a wide range of forms of alienation emerge, reflecting the diverse ways AI and automation reshape labour under contemporary capitalism. Many papers identify loss of autonomy and managerial domination as core forms of alienation, particularly in environments governed by algorithmic management (M. M. Zhang et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR61\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e). For instance, (Hilstob \u0026amp; Massie, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR19\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) show that workers experience precarity and diminished control as employers adopt AI-enabled monitoring, while (Vredenburgh, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR55\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) finds that opacity in algorithmic decision-making undermines worker understanding and erodes trust in workplace governance systems. (Bittle et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR6\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e; Qin, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR43\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) deepen the analysis of alienation by showing how extreme structural conditions of work marked by precarity, exploitation, and the erosion of dignity can culminate in work-related suicide, framing it not as an individual pathology but as a systemic form of social and existential alienation produced by contemporary capitalist labour regimes. Several studies describe fetishization and mystification of technology, where workers become estranged from the mechanisms that structure their labour. (Hanon, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR16\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e; Tang \u0026amp; Chen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR54\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) critiques techno-utopian narratives that mask the capitalist logics driving automation, and (Rellihan, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR45\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) highlights how generative AI conceals underlying exploitation by presenting itself as an autonomous \u0026ldquo;creative\u0026rdquo; force.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA second cluster of studies emphasises data-driven and platform-mediated alienation, documenting how AI-enabled surveillance and extraction of behavioural data deepen exploitation. (Skotnicki \u0026amp; Nielsen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR51\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) demonstrates that automation anxieties reflect structural capitalist contradictions rather than mere technological disruption, while (Morreale et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR33\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) (B. Wang et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR56\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) describe how everyday digital interactions become \u0026ldquo;unwitting labour\u0026rdquo; that trains AI models, contributing to invisible forms of surplus value extraction. Other research documents deskilling and labour devaluation, especially in automated production environments. (Xu \u0026amp; Ye, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR58\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) shows that robotised factories intensify technical control, eroding worker skill and agency, and (Satran, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR48\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e) demonstrates how mental-health professionals experience craft-to-labour degradation as psychotherapy becomes increasingly standardised through automation.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to economic and technological determinants, several papers foreground social and existential alienation. (Neschen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR36\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e) argues that digital platforms disrupt recognition relations, constraining workers\u0026rsquo; sense of self and interpersonal meaning, while (Burns, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR8\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) and (Bielskis, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR4\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) highlight how AI-mediated labour processes undermine dignity, purpose, and opportunities for meaningful work. A growing number of works also conceptualise structural and systemic alienation, focusing on how capitalist relations shape the deployment of AI. (Saha, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR47\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e) shows how datafication produces forms of dispossession through continuous extraction of personal and behavioural information, (Skotnicki \u0026amp; Nielsen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR51\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) introduce the idea of \u0026ldquo;futurelessness\u0026rdquo; as a systemic alienation under financialised digital capitalism, and (Yang, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR59\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) illustrates how capitalist AI generates epistemic enclosure and new forms of class domination.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaken together, the key findings from the dataset reveal that alienation in the AI-driven workplace is multidimensional and structurally embedded, spanning managerial control, data extraction, technological mediation, deskilling, and broader political-economic forces. These patterns demonstrate that while AI introduces novel mechanisms of estrangement particularly through algorithmic governance and datafication the underlying dynamics remain consistent with Marxist analyses of capitalist labour, where technological development amplifies pre-existing contradictions between capital, labour, and human flourishing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey Findings by AI and Automation Type\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the analysed studies, diverse forms of artificial intelligence and automation algorithmic management, robotic systems, datafication infrastructures, generative AI, and wearable technologies produce convergent transformations in labour that reinforce core Marxian dynamics of control, commodification, and alienation. Despite their technical variation, these systems are deployed within capitalist relations of production and systematically reorganise labour in ways that deepen managerial authority, intensify value extraction, and extend the subsumption of workers under data-driven modes of governance.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA substantial segment of the literature concentrates on algorithmic management, particularly in platform-mediated work environments. These studies show that algorithmic decision-making embeds managerial power within opaque computational systems that diminish worker autonomy and obscure channels of contestation ((Jarrahi et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR24\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) (Isbah, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR23\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e). Automated scheduling, performance scoring, and behavioural surveillance operate as digital Taylorism, replacing interpersonal supervision with constant, data-intensive oversight (Hilstob \u0026amp; Massie, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR19\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e). This leads to heightened precarity and reconfigures workplace authority in favour of capital, producing intensified forms of alienation rooted in reduced agency and informational asymmetry.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch examining robotic and intelligent automation demonstrates similar patterns in industrial settings, where the introduction of robotic systems reorganises the labour process around machine logic rather than human expertise. Studies of robotised factories ((Xu \u0026amp; Ye, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR58\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e) document deskilling, displacement from meaningful tasks, and increased managerial control. Complementary analyses emphasise the broader social consequences of labour-saving technologies, including heightened marginality among displaced workers and the deepening of economic precarity (Hy\u0026ouml;tyl\u0026auml;inen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR21\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e). These findings reflect Marx\u0026rsquo;s analysis of machinery as a tool for extracting relative surplus value and disciplining labour.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother prominent stream of research analyses datafication and surveillance-driven AI, emphasising the shift from wage labour to data-based value extraction. Scholars show that AI systems rely on \u0026ldquo;unwitting labour,\u0026rdquo; in which user behaviour is appropriated to train algorithms without compensation (Morreale et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR33\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e). This is conceptualised as a contemporary form of accumulation by dispossession, wherein personal data becomes a new site of surplus extraction (Saha, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR47\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e). Additional studies highlight how predictive policing, algorithmic scoring, and AI governance structures embed what (Hart et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR17\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e) term a \u0026ldquo;logic of harm,\u0026rdquo; reinforcing structural inequalities and extending capitalist domination through computational means.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParallel work on generative AI reveals that systems such as large language models obscure the human labour that underpins their training data and reshape the organisation of cognitive and creative labour (Plantin, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR41\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e). Scholars argue that generative AI mystifies relations of production by presenting machine outputs as autonomous ((Rellihan, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR45\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e); (Chatterjee, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR10\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e). At an epistemic level, generative technologies alter the foundations of scientific and creative work (Cruz-Aguilar, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR12\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e), while Marxist and Ricardian analyses demonstrate shifts in labour demand and value production under increasingly automated knowledge regimes (Liu, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR30\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging research also addresses wearable AI and biometric surveillance, showing how workplace monitoring extends into workers\u0026rsquo; bodies through physiological data extraction and algorithmic evaluation. Smartwatch-based productivity systems exemplify the fusion of bodily monitoring with labour discipline, intensifying alienation by transforming the body into a direct site of data capture and managerial oversight (Patrissia \u0026amp; Husni, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR39\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaken together, the findings illustrate that contemporary AI systems regardless of form operate primarily to reorganise labour relations in favour of capital. They automate managerial control, intensify surveillance, deepen deskilling, and produce new modalities of alienation that permeate cognitive, social, and bodily dimensions of work. This convergence underscores the enduring relevance of Marxist analysis for understanding the political economy of AI-driven transformations in the workplace.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cdiv id=\"Sec8\" class=\"Section2\"\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKey Marxist Concepts in Relation to Key Findings\u003c/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcross the analysed literature, Marxist concepts such as alienation, surplus value, class struggle, relations of production, and the labour theory of value provide a coherent framework for interpreting how AI and automation reshape contemporary labour. These concepts illuminate how technological systems function not as neutral innovations but as instruments embedded within capitalist social relations. By grounding their analyses in Marxian theory, scholars demonstrate that the impacts of AI ranging from algorithmic management to datafication can be understood as extensions of longstanding contradictions between labour and capital (Jarrahi et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR24\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe concept of alienation is the most widely applied and offers critical insight into the transformations observed across labour contexts. Studies of algorithmic management highlight how automated supervision erodes worker autonomy and embeds managerial authority within opaque computational systems (Vredenburgh, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR55\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e). Research in robotised and automated environments shows how deskilling, displacement, and the loss of craft-based agency intensify estrangement from the labour process (Xu \u0026amp; Ye, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR58\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e). In platform and datafied labour, alienation emerges through continuous surveillance, behavioural extraction, and the appropriation of user activity as \u0026ldquo;unwitting labour\u0026rdquo; for AI model training (Morreale et al., \u003cspan citationid=\"CR33\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e). Theoretical contributions extend alienation beyond the workplace, conceptualising structural and existential forms including futurelessness and dispossession within digital capitalism ((Skotnicki \u0026amp; Nielsen, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR51\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2021\u003c/span\u003e)(Burns, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR8\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA second set of studies employs concepts of surplus value, primitive accumulation, and digital dispossession to explain new extractive logics embedded in AI systems. Scholars show that AI generates surplus not only from wage labour but also from data captured through everyday interactions, aligning with Marxian analyses of expanded surplus extraction and Harvey\u0026rsquo;s notion of accumulation by dispossession (Saha \u003cspan citationid=\"CR47\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2024\u003c/span\u003e; Morreale et al. \u003cspan citationid=\"CR33\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2023\u003c/span\u003e). Similarly, research grounded in the labour theory of value demonstrates how automation restructures value creation, particularly within knowledge and scientific labour (He \u0026amp; Li \u003cspan citationid=\"CR18\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e; Cruz-Aguilar \u003cspan citationid=\"CR12\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2025\u003c/span\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, concepts such as class struggle, relations of production, and capitalist contradictions frame findings on structural power shifts resulting from AI deployment. Studies argue that AI intensifies managerial control, consolidates corporate dominance, and contributes to class recomposition through deskilling and displacement (Hanon, \u003cspan citationid=\"CR16\" class=\"CitationRef\"\u003e2022\u003c/span\u003e). These analyses reaffirm that AI evolves within capitalist imperatives, deepening systemic contradictions rather than resolving them.\u003c/p\u003e \u003c/div\u003e"},{"header":"Conclusion and Research Gaps","content":"\u003cp\u003eThis systematic review shows that AI and automation are not merely technical innovations but deeply political-economic forces that intensify long-standing contradictions within capitalist labour relations. Across the 56 studies analysed, a consistent pattern emerges: AI systems whether embedded in algorithmic management, robotic automation, generative models, or datafication infrastructures extend managerial control, deepen worker alienation, and reorganise the labour process around the imperatives of capital accumulation. Findings across multiple years demonstrate an evolution from early analyses of algorithmic control (2021), to political-economic critiques of automation (2022), to engagements with digital capitalism and value extraction (2023), and finally to advanced system-level critiques of capitalist AI (2024\u0026ndash;2025). Despite their technical diversity, the reviewed technologies produce strikingly convergent outcomes: erosion of autonomy, intensification of surveillance, deskilling, epistemic enclosure, and new modalities of exploitation anchored in the extraction of behavioural and cognitive data.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the same time, the review reveals several critical research gaps. First, existing scholarship is heavily concentrated in high-income economies, leaving limited empirical understanding of how AI reshapes labour in the Global South particularly in contexts of informality, precarious migrant labour, and resource-poor institutional settings. Second, most studies focus on individual-level or organisational effects, while systematic analyses of sector-wide and macroeconomic transformations remain underdeveloped. Third, the literature lacks longitudinal research tracking how alienation evolves as workers adapt to automated systems over time. Fourth, while many studies document harms, few engage with resistance, collective action, or emerging forms of digital labour organising, which are essential for understanding class struggle under algorithmic capitalism. Fifth, despite growing interest in epistemic and affective alienation, empirical studies examining psychological and emotional impacts of AI-driven work remain scarce. Finally, theoretical engagement with Marxist concepts is often rich but uneven; future scholarship would benefit from deeper integration of value theory, socialist computation, and alternative post-capitalist frameworks.\u003c/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaken together, these gaps indicate a pressing need for interdisciplinary, globally inclusive, and empirically robust research capable of capturing the complex and evolving dynamics of AI-mediated labour. As AI continues to restructure work at unprecedented speed and scale, Marxist analysis provides indispensable tools for understanding the socio-economic contradictions of the digital workplace and for envisioning more equitable technological futures.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"header":"Declarations","content":"\u003ch2\u003eAuthor Contribution\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll are done by the same author as there is only one author\u003c/p\u003e"},{"header":"References","content":"\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAl-Asadi M, Jasim SA, Bhushan B, Al-Azzawi MS (2025) Navigating AI Ethical Dilemmas: A Marxist Technological Perspective and Governance Pathways. \u003cem\u003eDigital Transformation in Interdisciplinary Sciences\u003c/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"ExternalRef\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"RefSource\"\u003ehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91643-4_7\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan address=\"10.1007/978-3-031-91643-4_7\" targettype=\"DOI\" class=\"RefTarget\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArifKosar M (2024) Marx, Automation and the Future of Work. 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Drawing on 56 peer-reviewed studies published between 2021 and 2025 and selected using the PRISMA 2020 protocol, the review synthesises empirical and theoretical insights from sociology, critical management studies, digital labour scholarship, and Marxist political economy. The findings reveal that AI and automation intensify longstanding capitalist dynamics by embedding managerial control within algorithmic systems, expanding data-driven surveillance, restructuring value extraction, and deepening forms of worker alienation. Across sectors, technologies such as algorithmic management, robotics, generative AI, datafication infrastructures, and biometric monitoring reduce worker autonomy, obscure mechanisms of decision-making, and reorganise power asymmetries between capital and labour. The review demonstrates that Marx\u0026rsquo;s concepts\u0026mdash;particularly alienation, surplus value, class domination, and relations of production\u0026mdash;remain highly relevant for analysing digital labour regimes. Moreover, recent scholarship highlights emerging forms of epistemic and affective alienation unique to AI-mediated work, while studies from 2025 introduce system-level critiques of capitalist AI and computational political economy. Overall, this review provides the most comprehensive synthesis to date of Marxist analyses of AI-driven workplace transformations, offering conceptual clarity, empirical grounding, and a critical foundation for future research on labour in the digital age.\u003c/p\u003e","manuscriptTitle":"Automation, Alienation, and Artificial Intelligence: A Marxist Analysis of the Modern Workplace – A Systematic Literature Review (PRISMA 2020)","msid":"","msnumber":"","nonDraftVersions":[{"code":1,"date":"2025-12-15 05:18:17","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-8243718/v1","editorialEvents":[{"type":"communityComments","content":0}],"status":"published","journal":{"display":true,"email":"[email protected]","identity":"researchsquare","isNatureJournal":false,"hasQc":true,"allowDirectSubmit":true,"externalIdentity":"","sideBox":"","snPcode":"","submissionUrl":"/submission","title":"Research Square","twitterHandle":"researchsquare","acdcEnabled":true,"dfaEnabled":false,"editorialSystem":"","reportingPortfolio":"","inReviewEnabled":false,"inReviewRevisionsEnabled":true}}],"origin":"","ownerIdentity":"bf2b3eaf-1b6e-499a-a70b-e6f2204e297a","owner":[],"postedDate":"December 15th, 2025","published":true,"recentEditorialEvents":[],"rejectedJournal":[],"revision":"","amendment":"","status":"posted","subjectAreas":[],"tags":[],"updatedAt":"2025-12-15T05:18:17+00:00","versionOfRecord":[],"versionCreatedAt":"2025-12-15 05:18:17","video":"","vorDoi":"","vorDoiUrl":"","workflowStages":[]},"version":"v1","identity":"rs-8243718","journalConfig":"researchsquare"},"__N_SSP":true},"page":"/article/[identity]/[[...version]]","query":{"redirect":"/article/rs-8243718","identity":"rs-8243718","version":["v1"]},"buildId":"8U1c8b4HqxoKbykW_rLl7","isFallback":false,"isExperimentalCompile":false,"dynamicIds":[84888],"gssp":true,"scriptLoader":[]}