We often talk about how workers are in jobs segregated by not just class, but race. This series of pictures is from a San Francisco Chronicle article about flash mobs, or “an international fad, partly anarchistic, partly absurdist, in which a mob of participants suddenly materializes at a public place, engages in odd behavior [like pillow or shaving cream fights] and then disperses.” The images show mostly white revelers, and then the all-too-familiar city-worker-of-color sent in to clean up the mess:
I also think it’s interesting that, though many of us see such workers in our everyday lives, they are very rarely made visible in news accounts of the world. This article, specifically, was about the problem and expense involved in cleaning up these flash mobs full of frivolity. Even so, a worker appears in only two images of 20.
Found at Alas A Blog and Double Consciousness.
