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- Title
Featherbedding, Fabricating, and the Failure of Authority on The Wire.
- Authors
Luff, Jennifer
- Abstract
The essay offers criticism of writer and producer David Simon's television series "The Wire," focusing on the program's portrayal of various corrupt activities. Topics addressed include the moral and ethical aspects of workplace theft; the program's depiction of differences between the attitudes of a labor union leader for longshoremen in Baltimore, Maryland and his son; and the fabrication of a serial-killer case by police officers in "The Wire."
- Subjects
BALTIMORE (Md.); WIRE, The (TV program); SIMON, David, 1960-; CORRUPTION; EMPLOYEE theft; POLICE on television; LABOR unions; STEVEDORES
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-1898720