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WORK & LABOR. - Coggle Diagram
WORK & LABOR.
Corporate surveillance.
How companies monitor and control behavior (Orientation, Sorry to Bother You).
titile: "Orientation" by Daniel Orozco. Key idea: Surveillance in this office is social and mindset wise. The narrator knows everyone's secrets- who is grieving, who is having an affair, and who is also very mentally unstable. Quote: "You may share your secrets with us but we will not tell you ours." Connections: It shows that "orientation" is actually a way to let the new worker know that the company is always watching their lives, not just only their work.
Title: Sorry to bother You (Boots Riley). Key Idea: The company "WorryFree" uses lifelong contracts where workers live inside the factory. This allows for 24/7 watching and control over the workers body over time. Connection: This represents the end of surveillance, where the boundary between "home" and "work" is gone for the sake of profit.
Label: The Panopticon Effect. Description: Both texts suggests that when workers feel a some type of way such as constantly being watched whether by narrator or a contract- they begin to police themselves and lose their self humanity.
(For survelliance)
"You may share your secrets with us but we will not tell you ours." Source: Orientation by Daniel orozco.
Passive Resistance.
Unsettle authority without an outward violence (Bartleby, Civil Disobedience).
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" By Herman Melville. Key idea: Bartleby represents the best form of passive resistance by refusing to comply with his employer's demands. Quote: "I would prefer not to". Connections: His polite but stern refusal goes bad to the entire workflow of the law office, showing how silence can be way more powerful than a loud protest.
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau. Key idea: Thoreau argues that individuals have a moral to prioritize their conscience over the law. Quote: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison". Connections" He seconds for "quiet" rebellion- like refusing to pay taxes- and to stop supporting an un equal system.
Label: Silent Subversion. Description: Bartleby and Thoreau shows that power sometimes relies on teh cooperation of the worker. By just not doing something that cooperation peacefully, they challenge the authority of the "Work and Labor" system without using force.
(for Bartleby)
I Would perfer not to" Source bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville.
Class Warfare.
The struggle between the "amazing" and the "working class" (Sorry to Bother You, The depiction of Capitalist in Sorry to Bother You Movie).
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley) The film depicts the struggle between the working class and the corporate elite. The company, WorryFree, literally transforms their workers into "Equisapiens" to maximize profit, showing how capitalist class looks at labor only as a resource to be exploited. Quote: "Power is about making people do what you want them to do."
Connection to Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville) Description: Similar to the movie, this story shows an employer who cannot understand a human being who doesn't really fit into the capitalist part. Bartleby's "preference not to" is a type of act of class warfare against the system that only values his own output.
THE DEPICTION OF CAPITALIST IN SORRY TO BOTHER YOU MOVIE (Sunaryo & Juanda, 2020) Description: This article argues how that capitalists are depicted as manipulative figures backed by the goverment to exploit workers for profit. Quote: "The capittalist will do anything to gain profit even though he must exploit the workers.. changing the worker into a people-horse creature."
(for the Equisapiens)
"The capitalist will do anything to gain profit even though he must exploit the workers... changing the worker into a people horse creature."
Source: The depiction of capitalist in sorry to bother you movie (Sunaryo & Juanda, 2020)
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