Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture (e-bog) af Cameron, Alexia
Cameron, Alexia (forfatter)

Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture e-bog

348,37 DKK (inkl. moms 435,46 DKK)
What does it mean to work in the 'hip' postmodern economy? This book develops the concept of 'affected labour' within Melbourne, Australia. Through the lens of cafe and bar culture, the book provides an ethnographic investigation into the ways that affect arises, circulates, sticks and dissipates over the course of everyday encounters. The dynamics and atmospheres of affective labour among thos...
E-bog 348,37 DKK
Forfattere Cameron, Alexia (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 13 marts 2018
Længde 92 sider
Genrer 1MBFV
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781351214247
What does it mean to work in the 'hip' postmodern economy? This book develops the concept of 'affected labour' within Melbourne, Australia. Through the lens of cafe and bar culture, the book provides an ethnographic investigation into the ways that affect arises, circulates, sticks and dissipates over the course of everyday encounters. The dynamics and atmospheres of affective labour among those working in the hospitality-oriented environments are unfolded. Service work is rooted in the notion that labour is 'performed' by an exhausted worker for a demanding customer. This book goes beyond this idea by describing the way not only consumers are moved by the experience and seduced by the atmosphere, but more pressingly workers and employers. This book reveals the ways in which workers themselves are capitalised on by being affected pleasurably in the moment, fuelling an economy of short-term desires in which 'affected labourers' are manipulated.