Nosferatu and the Golden Arches

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Alex C. Park on the global rise of the fast-food industry, and Tom McMahon takes a class-based look at Nosferatu.

In our first segment, producer Patrick Dixon talks with Alex C. Park about his experiences inside the Golden Arches, the globalization of the fast food industry and about how McDonalds became an unlikely highlight of last year’s presidential campaign.

Then, writer, cultural critic, and activist Tom McMahon suggests that the horror in Robert Eggers' 2024 film Nosferatu is really about “a vampiric aristocracy that’s siphoning the societal lifeblood of capital, their need to consume taking precedence over all other social bonds, leaving the world to bear the burden of their indifference.” Interview by Tom Zaniello.

On Labor History in 2:00: The year was 2011; that was the day that labor movement took an historic stand in Madison, Wisconsin.

Broadcast on February 27, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Sources:
"In Fast Food, Worker Stress is the Business Model"
Robert Eggers 'Nosferatu' is a Symphony of Horror

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