{"id":19619,"date":"2020-01-13T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19619"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:10:28","slug":"process-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=19619","title":{"rendered":"The ICI Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_video  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-19638 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-19638 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Billingham_ICI_plant_September_1970_No._1_geograph-3435992-by-Ben-Brooksbank-142x74.jpg' alt='The ICI nylon spinning factory in Billingham, UK, September 1970' title='Process Man' height=\"74\" width=\"142\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eP6iwPWhP54' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Process Man\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eP6iwPWhP54?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>The ICI Song<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>aka Process Man or Chemical Worker\u2019s Song<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Ron Angel<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">1964<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspired by the same Imperial Chemical Industries plant in Billingham, UK that allegedly helped prompt Aldous Huxley to write Brave New World, Ron Angel\u2019s 1964 song speaks to the conditions facing workers spinning nylon thread.\u00a0 Angel muses on the juxtaposition of a well paying job that degrades the worker\u2019s heath:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s overtime and bonus opportunities galore<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The young men like their money and they all come back for more<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But soon you&#8217;re knockin&#8217; on and you look older than you should<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And hints at the broader impact of plastics manufacturing in the Billingham community:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well a Process Man am I and I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; you no lie<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":19638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-19619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-and-activism","tag-music-and-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19655,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions\/19655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}