A Note on the Movie Alien and Self-Checkout Machines

Seattle's Tom Skerritt performing the future of work as imagined in the 1979 movie Alien. 20th Century Fox
Alien is really two movies. The first is a drama about work, labor issues, contracts, company rules, and so on; the second is just a horror film. In fact, one can see the unresolved management/labor problems in the first part of the film as being transmogrified into a monster that destroys the spaceship factory (the Nostromo) in the second part. From a wider historical p