Workflow (Updated)
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The office has come a long way: from the executive desk to the cubicle (also known as the "veal-fattening pen"). Today, we explore the changing nature of the American workplace and how corporations rule the world. Life Inc. - Douglas Rushkoff; Cubed - Nikil Saval; Sonic Sidebar: Waitresses; Industrial Musicals - Steve Young; Deep Tracks: Mark Mothersbaugh ; On Our Minds: Kim Gordon.
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| 0:18.8 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs. |
| 0:21.6 | Today, Workflow. |
| 0:23.6 | Maybe you feel lucky to have a job. |
| 0:26.6 | Maybe you love your job. |
| 0:27.6 | But at the end of the day, well, there's a reason they call it work. |
| 0:31.6 | Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. |
| 0:38.3 | I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob. |
| 0:40.3 | I look for a job both a day and night. |
| 0:46.3 | I can't find nothing that will suit me right a little bit of labor I'm not trying to shirk |
| 1:00.5 | but everything I found seemed too much like word I got a job I got a job to pay my way |
| 1:10.7 | like to go to bed when buddies are just going to give I got a job to pay my way. Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondos. |
| 1:29.3 | Welcome to the Working Week. |
| 1:32.3 | Oh, ah, welcome to the Working Week. |
| 1:35.3 | The American Working Week today and the American Workplace, |
| 1:49.0 | from the cubicle farm to the co-working facility. |
| 1:52.0 | Also, the lost history of a hidden American art farm, the industrial musical. |
| 1:58.0 | But first, do you ever get the feeling that your life is becoming less about you |
| 2:02.4 | and more about the company you work for? Well, it's not just you. Media theorist Doug Rushkoff |
| 2:07.8 | says corporate culture has taken over a lot of our lives, and it's time to get them back. |
| 2:13.6 | Rushkoff's the author of Life, Inc., how corporatism conquered the world. |
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