The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment

1. Collection Introduction: The 'New Normal' of Working Lives; Stephanie Taylor and Susan Luckman .- Section 1: Creative Working .- 2. Online Selling and the Growth of Home-Based Craft Microenterprise: The 'New Normal' of Women's Self-(Under)Employment; Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew .- 3. Hope Labour Revisited: Post-Socialist Creative Workers and Their Methods of Hope; Ana Alacovska .- 4. From Visual Discipline to Love-Work: The Feminizing of Photographic Expertise in the Age of Social Media; Karen Cross .- 5. Creative Labour, Before and After 'Going Freelance': Contextual Factors and Coalition-Building Practices; Frederick H. Pitts .- 6. Searching, Sorting and Managing Glut: Media Software Inscription Strategies for 'Being Creative'; Frédérik Lesage .- Section 2: Digital Working Lives .- 7. Negotiating the Intimate and the Professional in Mom Blogging; Katariina Mäkinen .- 8. Vlogging Careers: Everyday Expertise, Collaboration and Authenticity; Daniel Ashton and Karen Patel 9. From Presence to Multipresence: Mobile Knowledge Workers' Densified hours; Johanna Koroma and Matti Vartiainen 10. Affectual Demands and the Creative Worker: Experiencing Selves and Emotions in the Creative Organization; Iva Josefsson .- 11. Coworking(s) in the Plural: Coworking Spaces and New Ways of Managing; Sylvia Ivaldi, Ivana Pais and Giuseppe Scaratti .- Section 3: Transitions and Transformations .- 12. "Investment in Me": Uncertain Futures and Debt in the Intern Economy; Kori Allan .- 13. Letting Them Get Close: Entrepreneurial Work and the New Normal; Hanna-Mari Ikonen .- 14. Self-Employment in Elderly Care: A Way to Self-Fulfilment or Self-Exploitation for Professionals?; Elin Vadelius .- 15. Creating Alternative Solutions for Work: Experiences of Women Managers and Lawyers in Poland and the USA; Ingrid Biese and Marta Choroszewicz .- 16. Beyond Work? New Expectations and Aspirations; Stephanie Taylor.