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Introduction -- Global capitalism -- Consumption -- Work -- Doing work -- Emotion -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Taking seriously the production of consumption

AbstractIn this paper, I consider "green collar work," broadly defined as work intended to counter environmental degradation. I consider what might count as green collar work and compare the greening of work in different sectors, including industrial production, service work, working on "nature," and expert work. I look also at how organizations affect the "greenness" of work. I stress that "green work" is not consistent across time and place and that it is important to understand the interdependencies between different kinds of work. As this is a new topic in sociology, I draw on research from different social science disciplines.

The judgements and valuations made on Internet review sites are part of contemporary consumer culture. This article considers what such sites do in the market for commercial sex. It contributes to policy discussions in two ways. Firstly, it considers how the infrastructure and mechanisms of the web enables organising, searching and reporting of consumer experience, and hence how web reviews mediate commercial markets. It thereby draws links between social policies that concern the Internet and those that relate to sex work. Secondly, it explores how sex review sites mediate the field of commercial sex and discusses some of the potential insights for policy audiences. Policies directed at the regulation of this market will benefit from clear recognition of what customers understand their actions to be and how they participate in the construction of norms about commercial sex.

The post-structuralist focus on text and the production of text has recently produced a 'crisis of representation' for ethnography. This article argues that questions of representation are best engaged with while the researcher is in the field, gathering data. The argument is explored with reference to a dual ethnography of customer service work whereby the competing roles of worker and customer are acknowledged and incorporated into the research design through period spent observing as a worker and as a shopper. Researching customer service work as a worker and as a shopper reflects how claims to representation are contingent on the social role taken by the researcher. The implications of this for discussions of insider and outsider status and reflexivity are considered.