THE PRODUCTION OF FEMALE WORKER'S IDENTITYAND CLASS IN THE WORKPLACE: A CASE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSITY CANTEEN
XIE Yu-ying1, WU Qi-yan2
1. Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrec 3584CE, Netherlands;
2. School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Abstract Labor process theory is highly applied in many disciplines, such as labor studies, factory sociology and labor geography. Workplace like factories and restaurants in China has gained a lot of attention. However, the canteen in education department is rarely been focused on. These canteens are different from other workplace as they specially service for college students and teachers. Moreover, these canteens are often managed by different agents which are the university department, state-owned corporation and privatelyowned corporation, differentiating management approaches of workers. As a result of it, canteens in the university are worth analysed. According to this, we raised the questions in this paper, 1） How female rural-urban migrants are recruited and arranged in their work in the college canteens. 2） What special identities of female workers are produced in this different workplace. 3） How space/environment play a role in the production of class and identity of female workers. Through the in-depth interviews and observation, we find that, 1） Workers employed by the division of labor is produced based on gender, appearance, home place and the level of education in the university canteen. 2） The interactions with students and teachers have more effects on female workers which lack education, intensifying their inferior self-identity. 3）When workers do not be contained in the core production activities, the identity attributes before they entering the labor market play a more h important role in making the labor consent.
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