"During a busy day I don't get much done": on the materiality of immaterial labour in a multinational professional services firm

Mörike, Frauke

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dc.contributor.author	Mörike, Frauke	de
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-22T07:58:28Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-22T07:58:28Z
dc.date.issued	2017	de
dc.identifier.issn	2199-7942	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/61490
dc.description.abstract	"During a busy day I don't get much done" In this quote from a client consultant condenses the dilemma discussed in this paper: what officially counts as creditable, "real work" rarely corresponds to the daily lived praxis in the office. The case study is based on my ethnographic research in a professional services firm and shows how the organisational understanding of what is recognised as work focuses on ascertainable deliverables such as presentations or spreadsheet reports. The lived praxis at the offices, however, is coined by relational and affective work (Hardt 1999) - paradoxically even more in situations of pressing delivery deadlines. The paper discusses these two conflictive perceptions of work/non-work in the (claiming to be) post-Fordist field of "immaterial" labour (Lazzarato 1996) and questions the proclaimed change towards an immaterial quality of labour of the "informational economy" (Hardt and Negri 2000).	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Social sciences, sociology, anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	services industry; immaterial labour; knowledge work; consultants; Mumbai	de
dc.title	"During a busy day I don't get much done": on the materiality of immaterial labour in a multinational professional services firm	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien
dc.source.volume	19	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-8-11783	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	107-119	de
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internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	300
dc.source.issuetopic	The anthropology of work and labour	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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