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Workplace Humiliation and the Organization of Domestic Work
University of Birmingham, GBR.
Grenoble Ecole Management, FRA; Cardiff Business School, GBR.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Service Research Center (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Karlstad Business School (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2982-9651
2023 (English)In: Organization Studies, ISSN 0170-8406, E-ISSN 1741-3044, Vol. 44, no 11, p. 1853-1877Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This study of domestic workers and employers in Kolkata (India) examines the significance of workplace humiliation as an important yet neglected concept for organization studies. It identifies practices of symbolic, sexual and physical workplace humiliation that shape corporeality and subjectivity in such a way that workers feel inferior, fearful and docile. Practices of workplace humiliation serve the purpose of social reproduction by stabilizing the existing skewed power relations between workers and employers, and making workers comply inexpensively with the harsh requirements of highly exploitative workplaces. In foregrounding humiliation as a key organizational mechanism, this study furthers understanding of workplace humiliation, oppression, caste and exploitation in organization studies.

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Sage Publications, 2023. Vol. 44, no 11, p. 1853-1877
Keywords [en]
domestic work, exploitation, oppression, social reproduction, workplace humiliation
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Philosophy
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94216DOI: 10.1177/01708406231157034ISI: 000949246800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85150877977OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-94216DiVA, id: diva2:1749428
Available from: 2023-04-06 Created: 2023-04-06 Last updated: 2023-12-11Bibliographically approved

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