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1: Principles of Scientific Management вЂ“ F.W.

In one of the documents the FBI reaches out for help for info regarding Chaplins. The FBI declassified 2,000 documents on Chaplin.

Edgar was suspicious of just about everybody and one of these alleged commie pinkos was Charlie Chaplin. Listen as we discuss this fantastic and powerful film whose insights on work and society are still relevant today! During the Red Scare days of the 1950s good ole J. Referenced throughout the episode were Taylor ( Episode 1), Maslow ( Episode 3), Max WeberвЂ™s Bureaucracy ( Episode 6), The Hawthorne Studies ( Episode 9), Banana Time (Episode 13), SuchmanвЂ™s Human-Computer Interactions ( Episode 22), the Gig Economy (Episodes 18, 36 & 40), Socialization a la Van Maanen (Episode 38), the Garbage Can Model of Decisionmaking ( Episode 39), and KundaвЂ™s Study of Tech Culture ( Episode 49). But the film actually touches on many of the themes of this podcast. They leave, walking down the road to who knows where?ДЄs we viewed the film, our initial thoughts were about how Taylorism is portrayed and critiqued through the scenes at the factory and the social turmoil going on outside. Destitute and alone, the two find themselves on a barren road - she appears to have given up on life, but the Worker convinces her to continue on and try again. But in the end, she cannot hide from her past as an escaped orphan. Seeing a happy couple in a well-to-do, they imagine themselves being happy and carefree living together in a rundown falling-apart shack. Even more disturbing is the infamous X-Files episode, Home, that was inspired by the tale. Essaying the role of вЂthe little trampвЂ™ in numerable films, Chaplin created an immortal character in the world of on screen humor.

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After the Worker sacrifices himself to save them, the two would become inseparable. ChaplinвЂ™s story isnвЂ™t necessarily unbelievable, but it is pretty incredible as well as creepy and sad. A cost too small and ill fitting, loose trousers, a derby hat, a cane and a ridiculous moustache plus loads and loads of sheer genius-all the add up to just one name, Charlie Chaplin.

She escapes becoming a ward of the state but resorts to stealing to survive until caught by the police. He eventually finds his purpose through a growing relationship with the Gamine (Paulette Goddard), a tragic young woman orphaned after a workerвЂ™s strike turns violent and kills her father.

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After being subjected to a humiliating experiment intended to improve the lineвЂ™s efficiency, the Worker runs through a series of rotating jobs, stints in jail, and other misadventures as he tries to find his purpose in life. Glen Morgan has taken the freak show narrative Chaplin told and turned it from a pitiable story to a horror story. While Chaplin was apparently disturbed by the treatment of the limbless man, the viewers are horrified by the actions of the Peacock family. Playing his famed вЂњTrampвЂќ role for the final time, Chaplin portrayed a hapless Worker on an assembly line who is tormented both by supervisors and the work itself. Viewers of Home also come away from the experience disturbed, though not for the same reasons as Chaplin. Routinely ranked as one of the greatest movies of all time, Charlie ChaplinвЂ™s 1936 film вЂњModern TimesвЂќ balances great physical comedy with powerful social commentary.

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