@article{ref1,
title="Constructing a Worker Identity",
journal="Cultural dynamics",
year="2006",
author="Varghese, Linta",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="189-211",
abstract="This article examines the debates over the meaning of 'worker' in Workers' Awaaz, a female domestic workers' group in New York City, at three moments in the organization's history.Workers' Awaaz set itself apart from other South Asian groups through its focus on low-wage workers and by attempting to institute an organizing, rather than activist or service model. However, I argue that an infrastructure that divided workers from other membership along lines of occupation and income prevented Workers' Awaaz from engaging in mass-based organizing due to its reinscription of roles of service provider and client. By examining the shifting construction of worker, I hope to illustrate the debates and processes occurring within new organizational forms in the South Asian American community.<p />",
language="",
issn="0921-3740",
doi="10.1177/0921374006066698",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374006066698"
}