Overview
- Offers insight into the 'entrepreneurialisation' of society, and how the associated effects of the expansion of capitalism on an individual and collective level
- Cross-cuts separate bodies of literature, bringing together the social sciences of capitalism, markets and work on one side, and the sociology of leisure, domesticity and gender on the other, to provide new insight into the marketisation of everyday life
- Brings to the forefront widely practised activities that have otherwise been considered trivial and understudied because they are feminine and/or popular practices
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Low Labor Income
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sidonie Naulin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Grenoble and Researcher at PACTE, France.
Anne Jourdain is Associate Professor of Sociology at Paris-Dauphine University and Researcher at IRISSO, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Meaning of Extra Money
Book Subtitle: Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities
Editors: Sidonie Naulin, Anne Jourdain
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18297-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18296-0Published: 16 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18299-1Published: 16 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18297-7Published: 29 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Media Sociology, Gender Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology