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The social meaning of extra money : capitalism and the commodification of domestic and leisure activities / Sidonie Naulin, Anne Jourdain, editors.

Naulin, Sidonie, editor.; Jourdain, Anne, editor.
2020
HD2331 .S63 2020eb
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Title
The social meaning of extra money : capitalism and the commodification of domestic and leisure activities / Sidonie Naulin, Anne Jourdain, editors.
ISBN
9783030182977 (electronic book)
3030182975 (electronic book)
9783030182960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18297-7
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-18297-7 doi
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HD2331 .S63 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
658/.0412
Summary
Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, sexcamming, and more generally the economic use of free time. It outlines how the development of web platforms, the current economic context and post-Fordist values can account for this extension of market and labor. Drawing on a range of interviews, ethnographic observations, and quantitative surveys, the contributors question the empowering effects of commodification, with a specific focus on how gender and class inequalities affect the social meanings of extra money. Ultimately, the collective findings demonstrate how commodification pervades even the most mundane social activities. This research will be invaluable to scholars and students with a focus on gender and digital sociology, the sociology of work and labour, and the marketization of leisure.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2019).
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Naulin, Sidonie, editor.
Jourdain, Anne, editor.
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Dynamics of virtual work.
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1. Introduction: The Marketization of Everyday Life; Anne Jourdain and Sidonie Naulin
Part 1: Pin Money
2. Commodifying Leisure and Improving Its Social Value: Knitters' Conspicuous Production on Ravelry.com; Vinciane Zabban
3. Making Money Out of Leisure: The Marketization of Handicrafts and Food Blogging; Anne Jourdain and Sidonie Naulin
4. Selling Second-Hand Items on the Web: New Skills for Everyone?; Adrien Bailly, Renaud Garcia-Bardidia and Coralie Lallemand
Part 2: Savings
5. Comorian Women at Work: Juggling Insecure Jobs with the Transnational Suitcase Trade; Abdoul-Malik Ahmad
6. Domesticity as Value: The Commodification of Foodstuffs in Precarious Rural Russia; Glenn Mainguy
7. Nonstandard Working Hours and Economic Use of Free Time in the Upper Class: The Gender Gap; Anne Lambert
Part 3: Low Labor Income
8. Performing Amateurism: A Study of Camgirls' Work; Pierre Brasseur and Jean Finez
9. Making Money from TV Series: From Viewer to Webmaster with Financial Rewards; Anne-Sophie Béliard.
Having or Blurring It All? Capitalism's Work at the Frontier.

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