Monahan Torin, Fisher Jill A
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Work Employ Soc. 2020 Jun;34(3):441-456. doi: 10.1177/0950017019885069. Epub 2019 Nov 8.
This article explores the relationship between personal sacrifice and identity work within conditions of profound structural insecurity. We develop the concept of to describe how individual self-sacrifice aligns workers' identities to the needs of organizations while gradually foreclosing the actualization of individuals' desired future selves. Drawing upon qualitative data from a longitudinal study of healthy individuals who enrol in paid clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry, we make two contributions to the identity-work literature. First, we argue that the ongoing project of building stable and secure identities may become damaging when structural and cultural conditions defy even provisional, fragile attainment of this goal. Second, we reflect on how racialization and social marginalization erode identities and constrain possibilities for identity recuperation. Whereas the identity-work literature often focuses on the agential accomplishments of individuals, we provide a troubling account of how persistent social and economic inequalities confound identity realization efforts.
本文探讨了在深刻的结构不安全状况下个人牺牲与身份认同工作之间的关系。我们提出“身份认同抵押”这一概念，以描述个人自我牺牲如何使工人的身份与组织需求保持一致，同时逐渐阻碍个人理想未来自我的实现。基于对参与制药行业有偿临床试验的健康个体进行的纵向研究的定性数据，我们对身份认同工作文献做出了两点贡献。首先，我们认为，当结构和文化条件甚至阻碍这一目标的临时、脆弱实现时，构建稳定和安全身份的持续过程可能会造成损害。其次，我们思考了种族化和社会边缘化如何侵蚀身份认同并限制身份恢复的可能性。虽然身份认同工作文献通常关注个人的能动成就，但我们提供了一个令人不安的描述，即持续的社会和经济不平等如何混淆身份认同实现的努力。
