Consumption work: Wheeler & Glucksmann and Brīvbode adaptation

Wheeler & Glucksmann’s Household Recycling and Consumption Work should be used in the thesis primarily as a general concept/framework for recognising unpaid consumer labour, not as a direct claim that they empirically studied second-hand markets. The book defines consumption work as “all work necessary for the purchase, use, re-use and disposal of consumption goods and services” #T32NX9 and develops the technical/modal/processual SEFL framework #K4CB2W #75NQG2 It does mention second-hand cultures, charity shops, car boot sales and eBay, and notes care in ridding/divesting goods #73YW3A #S5UQYZ but explicitly says practices of giving/selling to second-hand outlets are not its focus #AJLVC7 For Brīvbode, the concept works best if reframed from household recycling feeding formal waste/material markets to semi-public non-monetary circulation where labour is redistributed among donors, takers, volunteers, and informal networks. Difference: in recycling, householders supply, warehouse and distribute feedstock to municipal/producer/private systems #BLASPX #P7JM62 in Brīvbode, households and volunteers sort, store, transport, curate, value, and morally regulate reusable objects in a gift/freecycling infrastructure #DKNKM6 #HM3BWV #4PNKDC #73NW5B The absence of price makes valuation work more explicit #MSGHYR and shifts some divestment labour from participants to volunteers #HM3BWV The draft should revise #796DZS to avoid saying Wheeler & Glucksmann ‘contend that secondhand markets involve consumption work’ and instead say their broad definition makes reuse/divestment analytically available as consumption work, while Brīvbode extends the framework into non-market exchange.