POL 128 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anomie, Employee Monitoring
6 May 2015
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Chapter 8 modern times & mystification: comedy in translation: charlie the tramp represents the average worker in an industrial factory in the immediate aftermath of the great depression. The movie deals with work, society and love. In the following scenes: a herd of sheep running with workers pouring out of a subway on their way to work. Chaplin is raising the issue of alienation and anomie. Work becomes his existence; workers are alienated from the products they produce, conditions of their labour. Grave concerns: health and safety, workplace surveillance by employers, assembly line production, just in time delivery: the tramp stumbles upon a red flag a picks it up, he them jailed of holding a flag that symbolizes communism. The scene implicitly assed of being a communist without trial sort of proves how the political parties act now. The tramp while jailed he meets a girl paulette who loves, he then starts to dream the american dream.
