We link the salience of collective identities to the emergent construction of boundaries between workers.
We show that boundaries between workers are reproduced and elaborated through three mechanisms: (1) administratively determined division of jobs, (2) extra-organizational collective identities that workers draw on to valorize their labor, and (3) third party (customer) preferences.
We observe the emergent sense-making that creates boundaries between workers of different origins, drawing on ethnographic data gathered over an eleven week period by Wu, who worked alongside urban and rural service employees at a retail store in Beijing.
Workplace stress respects no boundaries, following workers home and reconstituting itself as family stress that then finds its way back to the cubicle in a feedback loop of tension.
Its All Hands On Deck night gives novices a chance to try DJing, while its volunteer-staffed bar dissolves rigid boundaries between workers and punters, creating a feeling of communality I haven't experienced since my Rockworld days.
In V. canescens, individuals of the two reproductive modes are spatially separated, whereas in A. mellifera capensis, the separation of reproductive modes is across the caste boundary, with workers being thelytokous and queens being typically arrhenotokous.
The scope and nature of workers' boundaries may also underlie dynamics of collective unrest, which is surging among China's workers who seek secure livelihoods (Friedman 2014).
"So many people who don't understand that we have boundaries – that sex workers can be sexually harassed just like everyone else," she said.
As that period between the 30s and 80s declines, and labor unions are now increasingly small and being destroyed by the courts, and by legislatures, and by employers, we're turning back to a period where those boundaries on what workers can do and the response from employers are also fading.
While boundaries between health workers have undergone marked changes in recent years, the impact of these changes for the specialist pain clinic team is not known.
