Beyond invisibility: Landscapes of intersubjective recognition experienced by cleaners in Australian schools

IF 2.6 2区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Frances Flanagan
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Dominant approaches to researching cleaners’ experiences of invisibility and recognition have tended to focus on either the structural determinants of invisibility, such as outsourcing or ‘dirty work’ status, or the ways in which workers seek recognition as a strategy for managing taint. This article uses Honneth's concept of intersubjective recognition as a basis for bringing together structure- and agency-oriented approaches through a focus on the ways in which cleaners’ recognition experiences arise from historically specific contexts that are both found and made by cleaners. The article illustrates the usefulness of Honneth's theory through a comparison of the intersubjective recognition experiences of Australian school cleaners working in different work paradigms in two historical periods, public service cleaners in the 1910s–1990s and outsourced cleaners in the 2000s–2020s. The case studies contribute new empirical findings concerning patterns of cleaner recognition across all three dimensions theorised by Honneth – love, rights and solidarity – and the significance of shared horizons of purpose between cleaners and other workplace actors for enabling intersubjective recognition. Theoretically, the paper advances the concept of ‘dense’ and ‘sparse’ intersubjective recognition landscapes as a lens for understanding the changing nature and sources of cleaner invisibility and recognition over time.
超越隐形:澳大利亚学校清洁工所经历的主体间认知景观
研究清洁工的隐形和认可经历的主流方法往往侧重于隐形的结构决定因素,如外包或“脏工作”状态,或者工人寻求认可作为管理污点策略的方式。本文以Honneth的主体间识别概念为基础,通过关注清洁工的识别体验是如何从清洁工发现和创造的历史特定背景中产生的,将面向结构和代理的方法结合在一起。本文通过比较1910年代至1990年代的公共服务清洁工和2000年代至2020年代的外包清洁工这两个历史时期在不同工作模式下工作的澳大利亚学校清洁工的主体间识别经验,说明了洪尼斯理论的有用性。案例研究提供了新的经验发现,涉及Honneth理论的所有三个维度的清洁工认可模式——爱、权利和团结——以及清洁工和其他工作场所参与者之间共同目标视野对实现主体间认可的意义。从理论上讲,本文提出了“密集”和“稀疏”的主体间识别景观的概念,以此来理解随着时间的推移,更清洁的隐形和识别的性质和来源的变化。
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Journal of Industrial Relations
Journal of Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Industrial Relations takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of the world of work. It welcomes contributions which examine the way individuals, groups, organisations and institutions shape the employment relationship. The Journal takes the view that comprehensive understanding of industrial relations must take into account economic, political and social influences on the power of capital and labour, and the interactions between employers, workers, their collective organisations and the state.
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