ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines with Veblen to consider a period in which young Americans became disillusioned with their career prospects and consequently began to think about the other things they could be doing with the hours they spent at work. The most apparent leisure activity of the film lasts only twelve minutes. The chapter demonstrates a difference in the way that Dante and Randal interact with the customers. However, and perhaps predictably, Randal is still more committed to leisure in the workplace than Dante. This idea of ‘making do’ to form sites of resistance to the workplace can be seen in another instance, one that involves the mobilisation of popular culture. The act itself, of closing the store to play hockey, represents a challenge to the paradigm by which one is paid to perform a role. It is made even more glaring as it takes place on the roof of the store.
