Coffee as a Social Drug

Topik, Steven

doi:10.1353/cul.0.0027

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“…Workers started to meet for a cup of coffee during their workday in corners of production plants, business offices, and stores. With narrowed spaces for practicing parrhesia (Foucault 2001) and for facing power directly, coffee corners thus became private arenas for indirect resistance (Hannam 1997;Lee 2001;Stroebaek 2013;Topik 2009). …”

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The Online Unmanaged Organization: Control and Resistance in a Space with Blurred Boundaries

2016

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The unmanaged organization (Gabriel in Organ Stud 16:477-501, 1995) is moving from coffee corners to social networks. This means not only a change of media, but also a transformation in how organizations exert control over workers and how workers resist the commodification of emotions (Fineman, in: Fineman, Emotion in organizations, Sage, London, 2000; Lindebaum in J Manag Inq 21:262-277, 2012). After analyzing instances of the online publication of images and texts that escape organizational control, we identified three main ambiguities helpful in framing future studies about organizational control and resistance: ambiguity between private and public spheres, ambiguity between spontaneous and performed manifestations, and ambiguity between the distribution and control of power. Our main contribution is to understanding the Internet, particularly social networks, as a medium for employee resistance through distance (Collinson, in: Jermier et al., Resistance and power in organizations, Routledge, London, 1994), and in using the three aforementioned ambiguities to help analyze this phenomenon.

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2016

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“…Despite its label as a potential problem and intoxicant “caffeine is the world's most popular drug and coffee is its most popular agent” (Topik :101). Caffeine is, as with other stimulants such as tobacco and chocolate, largely a “social drug.” Indeed, coffee consumption has manifested quite different social and symbolic registers.…”

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“…Caffeine is, as with other stimulants such as tobacco and chocolate, largely a “social drug.” Indeed, coffee consumption has manifested quite different social and symbolic registers. Although more popular in the North than in the South, in America “coffee became the alarm clock that marked industrial time” (Topik :98) and coffee's sociability led it from a salon drink of distinction to a convenience drink. In Europe, coffee has been democratized through the emergence of coffeehouses (Cowan ).…”

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“…The “drug” aspects of coffee, accordingly, only partially explain coffee's popularity. As Topik (:85) concludes, it is the coffee sociability that explains its popularity. After all, decaffeinated coffee is quite popular in modern time.…”

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“…Nowadays, coffee entails a “coffee ritual” such as the “morning coffee” and the “coffee break.” Coffee is very commonly drunk at work. Workers needing to pause from their work and socialize with colleagues take “coffee breaks.” At work, as well as in other social arenas, the phrase “let's have a cup of coffee” has come to mean “let's have a conversation” (Topik :99). Thus, coffee sociability at work is an integral part of workplace culture.…”

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