Rethinking the Commercialization of Everyday Life: A ‘Whole Economy’ Perspective
Rethinking the Commercialization of Everyday Life: A ‘Whole Economy’ Perspective
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重新思考日常生活的商业化：“整体经济”视角
DOI：
10.1108/14636681011089989
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
S. Nadin
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作者：
Colin Williams;S. Nadin
目的——一个占主导地位的信念是，市场经济对日常生活的持续侵蚀是不可避免的、不可阻挡的和不可逆转的。然而，在过去的十年里，一小部分人开始质疑这种商业化的论点。本文试图通过开发一种“整体经济”方法来捕捉社区经济中的各种经济实践，然后将其应用于英国地区，从而为这种新兴的思想体系做出贡献。设计/方法/方法-这里报告了对英国北诺丁汉郡120个家庭使用的经济实践进行的调查，包括在富裕，中等排名和贫困社区进行的面对面访谈。研究结果-这揭示了日常生活的有限商业化和所有社区类型中大量经济实践的持续存在。所有经济实践的参与率（除了一对一的无偿工作和“不受关注的”无偿工作）在美国都更高。
Purpose – A dominant belief is that the continuing encroachment of the market economy into everyday life is inevitable, unstoppable and irreversible. Over the past decade, however, a small stream of thought has started to question this commercialization thesis. This paper seeks to contribute to this emergent body of thought by developing a “whole economy” approach for capturing the multifarious economic practices in community economies and then applying this to an English locality.Design/methodology/approach – A survey conducted of the economic practices used by 120 households in a North Nottinghamshire locality in the UK is reported here, comprising face‐to‐face interviews in an affluent, middle‐ranking and deprived neighborhood.Findings – This reveals the limited commercialization of everyday life and the persistence of a multitude of economic practices in all neighborhood‐types. Participation rates in all economic practices (except one‐to‐one unpaid work and “off‐the‐radar” unpaid work) are higher in r...