Week 4 readings

Question 1

what is the privatization of risk?

Answer 1

No longer looking to train people to behave this way, looking for employees that are already “skilled” - as needed workforce

Question 2

What are the 4 methods to select the ‘right’ workers?

Answer 2

vetting creative talents to find out aesthetic
hiring customers off the floor
offering discounts instead of higher wages
prolonging interviews and manipulating interviews to sort out “lower class” people

Question 3

What are the social consequences to aesthetic labour?

Answer 3

consumer pleasure - worker/consumer as one. want to consume more to gain prestige
job segregation - employees blame themselves
consumer fetishism - objects of the brand are seen as meaningful/valuuable

Question 4

What is the danger imperative?

Answer 4

Seeing a job as dangerous reproduces dangerous behaviour, even if the danger is not there

Question 5

How does danger influence police work?

Answer 5

seen as something to bond over; integrated into norms of being an officer; accountability is blurred