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This article focuses on the negotiated distinction between commercial and non-commercial spheres of life through the phenomenon of lifestyle entrepreneurship. Lifestyle entrepreneurship is a concept used for a form of self-employment, based on the business owner's own hobby or lifestyle. The article is based on a study of lifestyle enterprising in the tourism and hospitality industries in southern Sweden. The study comprises ethnographic interviews, field observations, and go-alongs with owners of small businesses that can be described as commercial homes, such as bed & breakfast and farm stay. The article uses the context of lifestyle entrepreneurs to theorize and discuss the dynamics of blurring and/or marking the distinction between personal and commercial relations. The theoretical point of departure is the notion of relational work in combination with the notion of sociological ambivalence. By combining these two strands of literature it is argued that the business owners' narrative practices sustain ambiguity and blurred boundaries, rather than draw lines, between commercial and non-commercial spheres. It is also argued that lifestyle-oriented work identity constructs a friendship-oriented form of service encounter, reinforced by a market where emotional closeness emerges as an experience product.

Eigendynamik -- The administration society -- Seductive gatherings -- Sneaky work and aways -- A spark of magic -- Beauty and boost -- Spirals of meetings and documents -- Dramatizing administrative skills -- Muddy transparency -- The devotion to teaching -- Magic, emotions and morality.

This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today's working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations—those formally working for clients, patients, or students—to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints and laments about "too many meetings" or "too much paperwork." There is something appealing to those compelled to participate in today's constantly multiplying and expanding administration that defies popular framings of it as merely pressure from above. Hidden Attractions of Administration shows in detail the emotional attractiveness, moral conflicts, and almost magical features that administrative tasks often entail in today's organizations, supported by ethnographic studies consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and participant observations from ten organizational settings and contexts across Sweden. The authors also question and complement explanations in administration-related research that have previously been taken for granted, arguing that it is a simplification to attribute all aspects of the change to New Public Management and instead taking into account what the classic sociologist Georg Simmel called anEigendynamik: a self-reinforcing tendency that, under certain circumstances, needs only a nudge in an administrative direction to get going. By applying ethnography to issues of bureaucratization and meeting cultures and by drawing on findings in emotional sociology and social anthropology, this volume contributes to both the sociology of work and the study of human service organizations and will appeal to scholars and students working across both areas.

"How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their attempts to navigate a changing environment which affects spaces, identities, and professional roles. A cross-disciplinary re-thinking of work, labour processes and management practices in the creative and cultural industries, the book offers perspectives on the importance of highlighting creative work as a phenomenon and practice beyond a particular industry, market, or public sector. Providing an opportunity to expand our conception of what creative work is, the book draws on evidence from a range of examples including the seaweed industry, children's writing, and rented spaces that operate like creative hubs. The result is a volume that will interest advanced students and scholars with an interest in the creative industries"--

How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their attempts to navigate a changing environment which affects spaces, identities, and professional roles. As cross-disciplinary re-thinking of work, labour processes and management practices in the creative and cultural industries, the book offers perspectives on the importance of highlighting creative work as a phenomenon and practice beyond a particular industry, market, or public sector. Providing an opportunity to expand our conception of what creative work is, the book draws on studies of a range of activities, practices and sectors that are usually included in the cultural and creative industries as well as ones that are more untraditional. The result is a volume that will interest students, practictioners, and scholars with an interest in the creative industries. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Working for the (hu)man in the tourism industry -- Part 1: Theoretical considerations -- 2 Conceptualizing non-human animals as "workers" within the tourism industry -- 3 Redefining the work of working animals in the tourism industry: An animal-centric reflection -- 4 Working donkeys in northwestern Mexico: Urban identity and tourism resources -- 5 Animal dark tourism in Mexico: Bulls performing their own slaughter -- 6 Farm animals' participation in tourism experiences: A time for proper respect -- Part 3: Value-added work -- 7 Animals as tourism stakeholders: Huskies, reindeer, and horses working in Lapland -- 8 Distributed leadership in tourism experiences: Russian sled dogs and Icelandic horses leading the way -- 9 A working holiday: From home to destination with a guide dog -- 10 The donkeys of Santorini: Workers or slaves? -- Part 4: Hidden labor -- 11 Monkey see, monkey do: The work of primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries -- 12 The greening of polar bears: Lively commodities in a climate change economy -- 13 "Cute, but get up and work!": The biophilia hypothesis in tourists' linguistic interactions with pandas -- 14 Working animal research: An agenda for the future -- 15 Afterword: On tourism, animals, and suffering – lessons from Aeschylus' Oresteia -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Index