LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Double Burden, Invisibility, Good Will Hunting
23 Feb 2016
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March 5: the working class in popular culture. Representations of different types of work, unions and workers. Wal-mart criticized for destroying supermarkets, countless small businesses and even historical sites. Wal-mart imports some 70% of its merchandise from china work is a beautiful thing. Criticized for low-wages, poor working conditions, sex discrimination, union-busting. Wal-mart maintains its low price level by allowing substandard labor conditions at the overseas factories producing most of its goods we"ve adjusted to living off cheap goods, reliant on them. Engages in ad campaign to improve image, irony of outsourcing with canadian song. Workers of colour that don"t conforms to stereotypes or as main characters. Still women"s responsibility, despite dual-earner reality and double day or second shif. Movies, ads, tv: cleaners are briefly shot cleaning floors in hallways to establish the setting-an office, business or hospital. Cleaners are exploited other (ex-dirty pretty things, 2002) Cleaner as a symbol of dead-end job, failed ambition (good will hunting)
