Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture - The Atmospheres and Economics of 'Hip' Melbourne (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2018
Authors:	Alexia Cameron
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	100
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-59210-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-367-59210-X
Barcode:	9780367592103

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