Vibes as value : Young workers and affective labour in the service economy

Name: Vibes as value
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526187314
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9781526187314

by David Farrugia , Julia Coffey , Lena Molnar , Megan Sharp , Steven Threadgold

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1526187310

ISBN-13 9781526187314

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 14th, 2026

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 424 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.60 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Consumerism Consumerism Sociology: work & labour Sociology: work and labour Economics Hospitality and service industries Service industries

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Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry. It develops an approach to hospitality work as a form of affective labour that produces value in the form of ‘vibes’, showing how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodied and made productive in the service economy. -- .

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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