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MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Alien (w/ Joe Mayall)

The MVC team travels to space, where no one can hear you scream… due to workplace endangerment.

ShareOn this week’s Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by author Joe Mayall for a deep space conversation about Ridley Scott’s 1979 science fiction and horror classic Alien. In 1979, director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Dan O’Bannon were sounding the alarm about the future of workplace endangerment with their groundbreaking sci-fi masterpiece Alien— the story of a group of blue-collar space miners who are forced to investigate an alien planet because their boss tells them to. In today’s discussion, Rivka, Frank, and Joe explore how the film served as a warning against the erosion of organized labor in the U.S. during the late ’70s and early ’80s.

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