Surf 's Up

Work, Life, Balance and Brand in a New Age Capitalist Organization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2322062
AutoresChris Land (0000-0001-7277-0985, University of Essex), Scott Taylor (0000-0002-8784-2264, University of Exeter)
Ano2010
Volume44
Fascículo3
Páginas395-413
Data de publicação2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038510362479
OpenAlexW2081746277
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas52
Referências citadas28

This article reframes the notion of work/life balance through analysis of branding and the immaterial labour process in a 'new age capitalist' organization. The company does not manufacture material products; rather, value is produced through branding imported goods to promote 'alternative' ways of living. This is achieved through incorporation of leisure activities and lifestyles of key employees, effectively putting their 'lives' to 'work' in the creation of value for the company. For employees, therefore, much work actually takes place notionally outside or on the margins of their formally employed space and time. We argue that this qualitatively transforms the conceptions of, and relations between, work and life that underpin the concept of work/life balance. We conclude by exploring the tensions generated by organizational incorporation of employee autonomy in the pursuit of aspirational branding

Autonomy · Balance (ability) · Business · Economics · Management · Political science · Process (computing) · Public relations · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Work–life balance · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing · Psychology