美学的劳动与组织的美学

The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization

ORGANIZATION · 2003
被引 542 · 同刊同年前 6%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

分两部分:先批判情感劳动文献,提出美学劳动概念以恢复服务工作的身体性;再讨论组织美学的三种形式,指出员工被塑造以展现组织审美。

Abstract

This article develops the conceptualization and analysis of aesthetic labour in two parts. The first part focuses on conceptualizing aesthetic labour. We critically revisit the emotional labour literature, arguing that the analysis of interactive service work is impeded by the way in which its corporeal aspects are retired and that, by shifting the focus from emotional to aesthetic labour, we are able to recuperate the embodied character of service work. We then explore the insights provided by the sociological perspectives on the body contained in the works of Goffman and Bourdieu in order to conceptualize aesthetic labour as embodied labour. In the second part, we develop our analysis of aesthetic labour within the context of a discussion of the aesthetics of organization. We discern three ways in which aesthetics is recognized to imbue organization: aesthetics of organization, aesthetics in organization and aesthetics as organization. We contend that employees are increasingly seen not simply as `software' but as `hardware', in the sense that they too can be corporately moulded to portray the organizational aesthetic. We ground this analysis in a case study from research conducted by the authors.

组织美学情感劳动身体社会学服务劳动