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Vibes as Value: Young Workers and Affective Labour in the Service Economy

Vibes as Value: Young Workers and Affective Labour in the Service Economy

Farrugia, David
Coffey, Julia
Threadgold, Steven

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1526187310
ISBN13: 9781526187314
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry, and thereby how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodied and made productive in the service economy. It shows that the key product of hospitality labour is 'vibes', or moments of enjoyment and relationality co-produced through exploitative relationships amongst workers and consumers. In the process, the book theorises hospitality as a form of affective labour organised through the normative and structural relations of precarious service work. It shows how identity construction produces value within the highly unequal social terrain of the service economy, and how hospitality labour enacts hierarchies of value extending far beyond the limits of the industry itself.

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