The Social Meaning of Extra Money: Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities 2020 1st Edition

The Social Meaning of Extra Money: Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities 2020 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030182960,9783030182977,3030182967,3030182975

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030182975
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9783030182977
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Marketization of Everyday Life
Part I. Pin Money
2. Commodifying Leisure and Improving Its Social Value: Knitters’ Conspicuous Production on Ravelry.com
3. Making Money Out of Leisure: The Marketization of Handicrafts and Food Blogging
4. Selling Second-Hand Items on the Web: New Skills for Everyone?
Part II. Savings
5. Comorian Women at Work: Juggling Insecure Jobs with the Transnational Suitcase Trade
6. Domesticity as Value: The Commodification of Foodstuffs in Precarious Rural Russia
7. Nonstandard Working Hours and Economic Use of Free Time in the Upper Class: The Gender Gap
Part III. Low Labor Income
8. Performing Amateurism: A Study of Camgirls’ Work
9. Making Money from TV Series: From Viewer to Webmaster with Financial Rewards

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