The main purpose of this study is to examine the alienation of low-income female earners and to investigate the affected variables of their alienation. For this empirical analysis, the data was collected from 356 poor, female-earners whose first child was of school age in the Seoul metropolitan area from the 14th of Feb. to the 18th of Mar. 2000. The collected data was analyzed by statistical methods such as freqency, mean, oneway ANOVA, and multiple regression. The major findings were as follows : First, poor female-earners alienation level was not higher than the average level. However among sub areas of alienation, powerlessness was higher than the average level. Second, the significant variables that affected the level of alienation were the amount of support from the child the cost from the work role, perception of the cost of child raising, economic strain events, the level of education, and the reward from the work role.