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Question: The question being posed here is-do those that do not make a physical product doing labor? If you work as a lawyer, doctor, professor what is the surplus value that you produce? Are you unproductive? Summarize the ways in which the chapter outlines the conflict between productive and unproductive labor. What is labor? How is intellectual work declared "labor"? How does the chapter argue that labor is incorporated into cultural studies? Another important turn in this chapter is the way in which critical cultural studies understands pop culture and mass media. It had previously been dismissed as not having an effect on people, as being trash tv, or low brow. Hall makes an argument that we must study pop culture and mass media. How does Hall say that mass media communicates to us? How does mass media and culture turn us into consumers? What does mass media have to do with ideology? How does Hall argue that meaning itself is produced? After reading this, how might you define culture?