Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology (Paperback)

by Chris Carlsson (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Looking like the hybrid of a comic book and a workers' manifesto, Processed World combines satire and critical analysis to expose alienation-exploitation-sexploitation at its worst in this, the age of information." - Working Woman "Corporate computer culture is a moving target that requires the precise aim found in the Processed World... written for and by people who live and breathe the price of progress." - The Nation "Processed World is a good 25 years ahead of its time." -San Francisco Examiner

Product Description
Bad Attitude is a collection of writings and graphics from the extraordinary Processed Word magazine. Dedicated it giving voice to the benumbed foot-soldiers of the information age it contains blistering first-hand accounts of life at the bottom of the ladder in big banks, defense contractors, computer manufacturers and food processing factories. In these pages the service economy and the new high tech jobs often touted in glowing terms by the mainstream media are exposed for their quotidian banality, their essential uselessness, and the catch-22 absurdity that permeates all corporate life under late capitalism. Moving at bike messenger speed between offices, Bad Attitude describes the hazards of the office computer and how to sabotage it, mutant culture in Silicon Valley, the new transiency undercutting links at work, the connections between time and money, bosses and secretaries, resistance and resignation. It provides a unique basis for new theoretical developments in the struggle for human liberation, and, above all, it assures the thousands of isolated rebels mired in dead-end and deadening jobs that they are not alone. The spark of revolt can and must be nurtured until the next wave comes along.

Product Details

• Paperback: 281 pages
• Publisher: Verso (December 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0860919463
• ISBN-13: 978-0860919469
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,516,721 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This guy really gets it., October 20, 1999

By A Customer

From an early age, local busybody Carlsson was involved in various activities designed to call attention to the meaninglessness and deliberately degrading nature of so much work, whether 'menial' or 'professional'. He is a highly intelligent man, but he does not condescend to anyone. This is a very funny volume but a sad one too- there's so much manufactured unhappiness and even abuse at work. Today Carlsson has moved on to an interactive history of San Francisco (called 'Shaping SF') which drained most of his resources. The CD is excellent, and the book should be available. But I miss his other work: taking to task the stupidest and meanest of employers...