disney,bryman

[Diane Caudillo]

oh hell yes, the beach! thank you for that prescription - 
and for raising the issue of emotional labor - I never knew the term before but have certainly given that issue some thought, during some of the less less fulfilling patches of my work history.
at some point I tuned into that phenomenon and resolved to resist collusion with my own exploitation on that level. thus taking yet another step away from acceptance of cultural force-feeding, eliminating many soul-killing job possibilities. 

without a bank-roll of privilege to back up this resolve, i still prefer to retain the free space & time i gain in return for giving up (an illusion of) security I might have gained inside the pen of corporate domestication. 

Diane Caudillo
pax, amor, et lepos in iocando

On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:46 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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