Taylorist Titillation

The world of the 1970s English 'sex comedy' is a ghastly one and should by no means be revisited. However. In the almost entirely dreadful meta-brit-sex-com Eskimo Nell a virginal screenwriter asks his star if he can watch him 'on the job', and if possible take notes. 'Take notes! What am I, a Time and Motion Study??' In that joke, almost worthy of Lindsay Anderson's Brittannia Hospital, so, so much about workerism in the 1970s is said...almost as much as the 'down tools, men!' saucy postcard...