51). Youth workers will begin to feel this way about other colleagues and become aware of what is happening in the workplace. Many employees who are higher in the hierarchy or are more senior will get certain benefits than those who are below. Young people will begin to feel alienated in the workplace where they are treated with less value and exploited in the workplace. The workplace is a place of alienation where workers have no control over what they produce (Bradford, 2012, p. 5). This means that workers are paid substantially less than the revenue the owner earns. Many large companies exploit their workers and do not pay them the proper wages they should be earning. When it comes to the minimum wage of youth workers, they earn a lower wage than other colleagues working in the same position. This is called conflict theory, where Marx explains that individuals reach their highest potential through their work, but are alienated and cannot achieve results in the work environment. Theorist Emile Durkheim created the term anomie, which is defined in the textbook as “a state of rulelessness that results