Trading health for money: agential struggles in the (re)configuration of subjectivity, the body and pain among construction workers
基于对32名丹麦建筑工人的访谈和观察，研究他们如何通过“用健康换金钱”来维持积极的社会、职业和男性身份，并揭示身体能动性被生产力、同事关系、工作保障和男性工人阶级身份所压制。
Construction work is physically demanding and often associated with bodily pain. This article presents a study of construction workers’ practices of using and relating to their bodies at work through an agential realist framework for analysing the (re)configuration of the workers’ embodied subjectivity. The analysis draws on interviews with 32 Danish construction workers as well as brief observations. The article shows how ‘trading health for money’ becomes a mode for maintaining positive social, occupational and masculine identity among construction workers. Furthermore, it shows how the agency of the body is overruled by the intra-acting agencies of productivity, collegiality, job security and masculine working-class identity. Finally, it shows an instability in this configuration of masculine working-class identity that leaves room for a focus on the body.