disney,bryman

[alice wellintown]

Labor & Employment, work, it seems to me, and I have argued this up
hill here for some time, in fact, before the publication of VL, M&D,
and AGTD, is what P writes about. Yes, it is not his only topic, but
it is very important to his work. So, to say his work is about work
sees silly to some, but each publication from P, including his
non-fiction publications, confirms my thesis.

Dave Monroe has posted quite a bit on Disney and Labor in P. And it is
not that the P-industry has completely ignored the subject, but is is
now, certainly, a more germane tpic as employment and unemploymnet are
pressing matters in the lives of so many. Who we work for and what we
do is important. Yesterday, on a TV program I am watching, The Big
Bang Theory, a character decided to quit his job as physicist and take
a job as a waiter so that he could spend more brain matter thinking
about a problem in M or String theory; he thought that if he took a
simple job, as Einstein had, or so he supposed, he would be able to
think and solve a major problem in physics. Silly, yes, and at times
stupid, but also quite humorous. What interests me is that there is no
time, as Dylan sez, to think. This because bits are now measured and
sold, like time, and both are moving at the speed of light. So speed,
something humans are not, has become our highest virtue. We ned to
squeezw as much labor out of an hour and ....

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/people/abryman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyfication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor