Household Recycling and Consumption Work [electronic resource] : Social and Moral Economies /
Wheeler, Kathryn.author.
Glucksmann, Miriam.author.
Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Picking a way through rubbish -- Consumers as workers in economies of waste -- Environmentally regimented rubbish : recycling systems in Sweden -- Market and state heterogeneity : recycling systems in England -- The three stages of recycling consumption work -- Comparing recycling consumption work -- Moral economies of recycling -- Living off tips : waste and recycling in Brazil and India -- Varieties of recycling work.
Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.
Environmental sociology.
Environmental policy.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Nature conservation.
Environmental Sociology.
Environmental Policy.
Sociology, general.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Family.
Nature Conservation.