Class and Labor
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks by ISBN: 1789383277Date: 2021-04-05The first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the USA, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Situates the parks in their respective historic contexts at the time of their opening, and considers the part that class plays in the success or failure of these ventures.
The Disneyization of Society by ISBN: 9780761967651Date: 2004-06-09Arguing that the contemporary world is increasingly converging towards the characteristics of the Disney theme parks, i.e. social environments that are driven by combinations of forms of consumption, this text demonstrates the importance of control and surveillance in consumer culture.
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden AgeISBN: 9781641607209Date: 2022-07-05Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them.
The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition by ISBN: 9781259583872Date: 2016-04-20"Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . ." Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney's enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades. As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson return with an updated and expanded third edition of The Disney Way to show how organizations can incorporate this four-pillared credo to support any business, drive any team, and guide any leader to create immeasurable success.
Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson by ISBN: 9780813124070Date: 2006-10-06In Drawing the Line, veteran animator Tom Sito chronicles the efforts of generations of working men and women artists who have struggled to create a stable standard of living that is as secure as the worlds their characters inhabit. The former president of America's largest animation union, Sito offers a unique insider's account of animators' struggles with legendary studio kingpins such as Jack Warner and Walt Disney, and their more recent battles with Michael Eisner and other Hollywood players.
The Experience: The 5 Principles of Disney Service and Relationship Excellence by ISBN: 1119028779Date: 2015-03-23The Experience is a unique guide to mastering the art of customer service and service relationships, based on the principles employed at the renowned leader in customer experience -- the Walt Disney Company.
The People V. Disneyland by ISBN: 1937878031Date: 2015-07-17The author of Mouse tales and More mouse tales offers another revealing glimpse at Disneyland and its operations, in the context of the park's legal history since 1955 and the hundreds of lawsuits that have shaped both park policy, employee relations, public perception, and the tourism industry.
The Pirates and the Mouse by ISBN: 9781560975304Date: 2003-07-17In the 1960s, Dan O'Neill, the creator of Odd Bodkins, assembled a band of rogue cartoonists, who together waged war against Disney, the ultimate enemy of their counterculture movement. Their Air Pirates Funnies featured Disney characters participating in obscene behaviour, provoking a mammoth lawsuit for copywright and trademark infringements that would rage for ten years, going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- "Equity Research - the Walt Disney Company" / by Miguel Sousa Montes Ferreira BarbosaDissertation--MSc; Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), 2020.
This Equity Research Report was written as a MSc in Finance's Final Work and follows the format recommended by the CFA Institute. The Walt Disney Company was chosen for this Final Work for several reasons: firstly, it is a company with a long and interesting history, with its ups and downs, which provides a learning opportunity while studying it; secondly, its business is across several segments which despite showing significant differences are highly synergetic and in some cases changing the entertainment business paradigm; thirdly and most importantly, we knew beforehand that the Company had gone through a business restructuring and was in the middle of an acquisition process. - "“In-Betweening” Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947" / by Bradley Edward MooreDissertation--MA; Old Dominion University, 2020.
The Walt Disney Company’s meticulously-crafted corporate mythos, as it developed in the mid-twentieth century, hid a conflicted history of anti-New Deal, nationalist ideology that was popularized during the clashes of the Hollywood labor movement in the 1930s and 1940s...This study argues that Walt Disney’s status as successful Hollywood industrialist, asset of the federal government, and rabid anti-New Dealer fueled his campaign to demonize the organizational efforts of his artists and depict their assertions of federally-guaranteed labor rights as the subversive actions of cartoonish villains.
- [Disney artists on strike] / compiled by Arthur BabbittUCLA Film & Television Archive
Record of Walt Disney animators' strike of 1941, compiled from home movie footage and other sources. - [KTLA news (Los Angeles, Calif.). 1980-08-21--excerpt and/or outtakes. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) pickets at Disney, FM9052].UCLA Film & Television Archive
The Screen Actors Guild pickets outside of Disney Studios. The picketing is jubilant with live band music and dancing. A picket sign reads "Musican Union AFM, AFL CIO on strike against motion picture & TV film producers." Actor John Russell appears. No news commentary. - Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti : Walt Disney and the science of exploitation / produced by Rudi Stern ; edited by Sylvie de MuizonReports on the use of cheap labor by the Walt Disney Company in its clothing factories in Haiti. Advocates that Disney clean up contractors' factories, guarantee workers' rights, pay a living wage, and open their plants to independent human rights organizations to monitor conditions.
- You Don't Choose Your Friends Oral History Transcript: The Memoirs of Herbert Knott Sorrell / interviewed by Elizabeth I. Dixon, [1961]YRL Special Collections Stacks ; 300/ 11
Forms part of: Oral History collection, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Transcript of a 21-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program. Sorrell discusses unionism in the movie industry and the Hollywood strikes of the 1930's and 1940's.