Work–life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada’s brothels
通过研究内华达州合法妓院行业，发现性工作者通过严格的边界分割来管理工作与生活，这种分割受到法律模糊性、职业意识形态和社区污名的共同塑造，最终使组织和外部社区受益，而个体工人承担污名负担。
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.