Household Recycling and Consumption Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Picking a Way through Rubbish

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 1-27

3. Consumers as Workers in Economies of Waste

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 28-55

4. Environmentally Regimented Rubbish: Recycling Systems in Sweden

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 56-78

5. Market and State Heterogeneity: Recycling Systems in England

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 79-103

6. The Three Stages of Recycling Consumption Work

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 104-131

7. Comparing Recycling Consumption Work

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 132-142

8. Moral Economies of Recycling

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 143-165

9. Living Off Tips: Waste and Recycling in Brazil and India

   • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

   Pages 166-193

10. Varieties of Recycling Work

    • Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann

    Pages 194-205

11. Back Matter

    Pages 206-235

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Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.

• Consumption Work
• Division of Labour
• Moral Economy
• Recycling
• Work
• environment
• Moral
• recycling
• sociology
• waste

• The Open University, UK

  Kathryn Wheeler

• University of Essex, UK

  Miriam Glucksmann

• London School of Economics, UK

  Miriam Glucksmann

Kathryn Wheeler is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her research focuses on ethical consumption and moral economies. She is the author of Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice? (2012), which analyses the organisations, institutions and grassroots networks that promote and support fair-trade in the UK, USA and Sweden.


Miriam Glucksmann is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. She has longstanding interests in work, employment and gender, especially restructuring, and connections between, different forms of labour. Her books include Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (1974, 2014), Women on the Line (1982, 2009), Women Assemble (1990), Cottons and Casuals (2000), and the jointly edited A New Sociology of Work? (2005). She completed a programme of research on 'Transformations of Work' as an ESRC Professorial Fellow in 2007, and was funded by the European Research Council (2010-2014) to research 'Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour'.

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