disney,bryman

[alice wellintown]

P writes about labor; in Bryman, and in several other studies of the
disney, the mcdonalds, isation of society, the use of mediated labor
is discussed, this includes the use of emotional labor (Fordisms,
McJobs, see Ritzer, and the scripting of labor, an idea we see exposed
in V., and in the novels after V., the idea that a worker can be
trained to internalize and present a corporate image and thus think
and feel about him or her self, if only while engaged with a customer
or when on the job, but as the job, the McJob is expanded to the
Disney Land or Oz or Our Land, this land is my land and your land and
it is a small world after all...we have not only the exploitation of
emotional labor, but the shrinking of the free spaces, free times, in
other words, the space and time and the mind, thoughts, are occupied
with work, the disney corp & co. is mining our hearts for gold; we
work, like machines, producing data, so turn off the compturer,
un-plug, disconnect those cables, over turn the tables...and go to the
beach.

chow,

Ali

see, also rsa on youtube, smile or die, Barbara Ehrenreich