Responding to stigmatization: how to resist and overcome the stigma of unemployment

Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia ORCID: 0000-0001-9166-0263, Sell-Trujillo, Lucia and Donnelly, Paul (2022) Responding to stigmatization: how to resist and overcome the stigma of unemployment. Organization Studies, 43 (10). 1629 - 1650. ISSN 0170-8406

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Abstract

Organization research on stigma has mostly focused on the stigmatized, limiting the scope for exploring what is possible and lacking recognition of the structural conditions and unequal power relations that create and sustain stigma. Consequently, it overlooks how actors can organize to resist and potentially overcome stigmatization altogether. Addressing this question empirically, we studied the long-term unemployed in Spain using a longitudinal qualitative research design. We develop a typology of responses to stigmatization – getting stuck, getting by, getting out, getting back at and getting organized – that advances our understanding of stigma in several ways. First, our typology captures stigma as a multilevel phenomenon. Second, it makes explicit that stigma can only be understood in relation to its socio-historical contexts and unequal relations of power. Third, it captures how resisting stigma needs to be a collective enterprise and advances the importance of organizing to both challenge stigmatization and explore alternatives.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/oss
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2021 15:24
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 05:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112169

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