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The Interlocking of Gender with Nationality, Race, Ethnicity and Class: the Narratives of Women in Hotel Work
Author(s) -
Adib Amel,
Guerrier Yvonne
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0432.00204
Subject(s) - nationality , ethnic group , narrative , negotiation , context (archaeology) , gender studies , race (biology) , class (philosophy) , sociology , work (physics) , social psychology , psychology , political science , linguistics , social science , history , immigration , engineering , computer science , law , anthropology , mechanical engineering , archaeology , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Whilst gender in the workplace is has been extensively researched, investigation into how gender interacts with other factors such as ethnicity and class has been less explicitly considered. This article explores the interlocking of gender with other categories such as class, ethnicity, race and nationality in the context of hotel work. It draws on the narratives of women describing their experiences of working in hotels. Findings from this empirically based examination suggest that gendered and other representations at work are not constructed as a process of adding difference on to difference, where categories are considered as separate and fixed. Instead, what emerges is a negotiation of the many categories shaping identities at work, which exist simultaneously and shift according to context.