Work beyond the bounds: a boundary analysis of the fragmentation of work
本文分析将工作划分为市场、非市场、非正规和地下劳动的社会与法律边界，揭示这些分类是社会建构且相互构成的，为跨类别比较研究提供分析框架，有助于理解工作碎片化与不平等的关系。
Scholars have examined many different types of labour, including ‘nonmarket’, ‘informal’ and ‘underground’ work. Such studies elucidate the conditions and consequences for workers in these jobs, while also generally accepting as unproblematic the basic distinctions between such categories of labour and ‘market’ work. Yet such distinctions should be a central point of interrogation. This article probes these distinctions by analysing the overlapping social and legal boundaries which fragment work into categories of ‘market’, ‘nonmarket’, ‘informal’ and ‘underground’ labour. Instead of reifying these categorizations, however, this analysis shows them to be socially constructed categories that mutually constitute one another. By systematizing their points of connection and departure, the boundary map presented in this article provides the analytical structure for new comparative research across seemingly dissimilar categories of work, which will extend scholarly understanding of the fragmentation of work and the relationship between work and inequality.