Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert

Author:Craig Lambert
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: economics, class issues, psychology
ISBN: 9781619026391
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2015-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

four: shadow work in restaurants, travel, and shopping

Each evening I found a pleasant auto court [motel] to rest in, beautiful new places that have sprung up in recent years. Now I began to experience a tendency in the West that perhaps I am too old to accept. It is the principle of do it yourself. At breakfast a toaster is on your table. You make your own toast. When I drew into one of these gems of comfort and convenience, registered, and was shown to my comfortable room after paying in advance, of course, that was the end of any contact with the management. There were no waiters, no bell boys. The chambermaids crept in and out invisibly. If I wanted ice, there was a machine near the office. I got my own ice, my own papers. Everything was convenient, centrally located, and lonesome.

—JOHN STEINBECK, TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE

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