Identity work at the intersection of dirty work, caste, and precarity: How Indian cleaners negotiate stigma
研究基于对印度清洁工的深度访谈，探讨他们如何在种姓污名、脏活污名和不稳定工作的多重压力下，通过构建矛盾身份来协商污名，并揭示了种姓/阶级不平等在新自由主义环境下的再生产。
Drawing from in-depth interviews of cleaners employed in the cleaning industry in India, the study examines the ongoing process of constructing a positive identity among dirty workers. Cleaners respond to the intense identity struggles emerging from caste stigma, dirty taint, and precarity by constructing ambivalent identities. Cleaners’ identity work is constituted by the very identity struggles they encounter, and their efforts to negotiate stigmatized identities further create identity tensions. Apart from accenting the paradoxical duality inhered in identity work, the findings show how caste/class inequalities are reworked in a neoliberal milieu and reproduced in identity construction processes. The findings call attention to caste as an important social category in organizational studies that has implications for work identities, dirty work, and precarious work.