How Does Alienation And Commodity Fetishism Contribute To The Exploitation Of Workers

What are some of the costs to workers of alienation?
When alienation occurs, workers are alienated from other human beings, the products of their labor, and the act of labor, and all three forms of alienation negatively affects the workers. Alienated from other human beings, workers compete with each other for jobs and better wages, and such competition among workers decreases their wages. When workers are alienated from the products of their labor, the capitalists sell these products for profit, which strengthens the position of the capitalists. Thus, when workers buy goods from capitalists, the workers help increase the inequality between capitalists and the proletariat. Finally, the capitalists alienate workers from the act of labor itself by deciding alone that the commodities are made in dreary and dangerous working conditions, which the workers must endure.
How does alienation and commodity fetishism help contribute to the exploitation of workers that we have been discussing?
As a result of commodity fetishism, human labor becomes a commodity that can be bought and sold in the labor market, and this alienated workers from the act of labor and transforms them into a part of a machine. Commodity fetishism provides capitalists with an excuse to unfairly exploit their workers. When workers experience poor working conditions or pay cuts, capitalists cite the current economic climate as the cause of insufficient funds for better working conditions and higher wages. When workers are alienated from what they create, capitalists claim the products of the worker’s labor as their property to sell for profit, which capitalists keep an unfair majority for