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Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture - The Atmospheres and Economics of 'Hip' Melbourne (Hardcover)
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Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture - The Atmospheres and Economics of 'Hip' Melbourne (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
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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.
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