1 Critical Perspectives on Service Work: An Introduction, Marek Korczynski and Cameron Macdonald -- 2 Chaplin's Modern Times: Service Work, Authenticity, and Nonsense at the Red Moon Caf 3.The Globalization of Nothing and the Outsourcing of Service Work -- 4 The Disneyization of Society -- 5...

"Branded Lives explores the increasingly popular concept of employee branding as a new form of employment relationship based on brand representation. In doing so it examines the ways in which the production and consumption of meaning at work are increasingly mediated by the brand. This...

"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious...