The Mike Daisey Affair: Labor and Performance

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Notes

1. “Retraction,” by Ira Glass, This American Life, Episode 460, March 16, 2012, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript.

2. “Retraction,” by Ira Glass, This American Life, Episode 460, March 16, 2012, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript.

3. “Retraction,” by Ira Glass, This American Life, Episode 460, March 16, 2012, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript.

4. “Retraction,” by Ira Glass, This American Life, Episode 460, March 16, 2012, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript.

5. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol.1, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1998); and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negi, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).

6. Karl Marx, “The German Ideology,” in Writings of the Younger Marx and Philosophy and Society, ed. and trans. Lloyd Eastern and Kurt Guddat (New York: Doubleday, 1976), 409.

7. Al Gini, My Job/My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (New York: Routledge, 2009).

8. Daniel Yankelovich, New Rules: Searching for Self-Fuflillment in a World Turned Upside Down (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 7, my emphasis.

9. Gini, My Job/My Self, 24.

10. Kathi Weeks, The Problem of Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 169.

11. Nora Watson, qtd. in Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk about What They Do all Day and How They Feel about What They Do (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974), xxix.

12. Terkel, Working, xi.

13. Jose Esteban Munoz, “Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative,” in The sage Handbook of Performance Studies, ed. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006), 10.

14. Hardt and Negri, Empire, 32.

15. Aries Poon, “Foxconn: Will Work with Apple to Improve Labor Practices in China,” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120330-702426.html.

16. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, “In China, Human Costs Are Built into an iPad,” New York Times, January 25, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?pagewanted = all.

17. Jill Dolan, “The Polemics and Potential of Theatre Studies and Performance,” in The sage Handbook of Performance Studies, ed. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, 520.

18. This is a reference to the sentiments expressed by Seth Duerr, the Artistic Director of The York Shakespeare Company.

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D. Soyini Madison

D. Soyini Madison is professor and chair of the Department of Performance Studies in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She is an affiliate professor with the Program in African Studies and the Departments of African American Studies and Anthropology