Invisible work at work and the reproduction of gendered social service organizations
研究通过以色列公共部门社会服务人员的185次深度访谈，运用制度民族志方法，揭示新自由主义和新公共管理如何促使员工提供无偿个人资源，并通过三种话语框架使这些隐形劳动在自我、组织和社会层面被忽视，从而再生产性别化的组织。
Abstract Studies demonstrate that the convergence of neoliberalism and New Public Management imperatives creates conditions wherein social service providers undertake various types of unpaid work, reemphasizing the role of gender in service provision. Drawing on these arguments, this study explores the process through which unpaid practices restructure gender in social service organizations, using the concept of “invisible work.” Applying the institutional ethnography method of inquiry, we examine experiences of social service workers in the Israeli public sector and operationalize unpaid work as informal personal resources that workers provide to clients. Analysis of 185 in‐depth interviews revealed three main discursive frames workers use to justify provision of personal resources. Through these frames, informal practices become invisible as work in multiple layers—to the self, the organization, and the society. Similar to invisible work in the household, its invisibility in the workplace constitutes a main force in the reproduction of gendered social service organizations.