Mechanisms of invisibility: rethinking the concept of invisible work
Mechanisms of invisibility: rethinking the concept of invisible work
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DOI：
10.1177/0950017016674894
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Hatton, Erin
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作者：
Hatton, Erin
20世纪80年代中期，丹尼尔斯创造了“隐形工作”一词，用来描述那些在文化和经济上已经贬值的女性无偿劳动--家务劳动和志愿者工作。自那以后，学者们将这一术语应用到许多类型的劳动中，然而，对于“隐形”意味着什么以及产生它的机制是什么，几乎没有人明确或达成共识。通过对这一影响深远的文献的深入分析，本文试图将“看不见的工作”重建为一个更有力的分析概念。它认为，工作是通过三种相互交错的社会学机制使其看不见的--在这里被确定为文化、法律和空间隐形机制。尽管它们在功能和程度上有所不同，但每一种机制都掩盖了这样一个事实，即工作是在进行的，因此导致了其经济贬值。最终，这一修订后的无形工作概念为学者们提供了一个新的分析工具，以理清为工人带来和再现不利条件的系统。
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work' to characterize those types of women's unpaid labour - housework and volunteer work - which had been culturally and economically devalued. Scholars have since applied this term to many types of labour, yet there is little clarity or consensus as to what 'invisibility' means and what mechanisms produce it. Through an in-depth analysis of this far-reaching literature, the present article seeks to reconstruct ` invisible work' as a more robust analytical concept. It argues that work is made invisible through three intersecting sociological mechanisms - here identified as cultural, legal and spatial mechanisms of invisibility. Though they differ in function and degree, each of these mechanisms obscures the fact that work is performed and therefore contributes to its economic devaluation. Ultimately, this revised concept of invisible work offers scholars a new analytic tool to untangle the systems that produce and reproduce disadvantage for workers.