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The three empirical chapters that constitute Part II of this book are delineated along the lines of "who one is", "what one does' and "how one practises' at work. The preceding chapter, focused on "who one is ethnically and racially at work", underlined the vulnerability of workers from minority cultural traditions to the disintegrative effects of everyday ethno-racial misrecognition. It also analysed some of the ways in which workers respond to such misrecognition, including responses aimed at rehabilitating a sense of achievement and contribution that are, according to the reconstruction of Honneth's conceptions of work devised to anchor that chapter's critique, normative in paid employment. This chapter moves the focus to cross-cultural relations of recognition regarding "what one does for work", that is, ethno-racial difference as it is linked to the status of a paid occupation and that occupation's expectations and duties. Elaborated below, the critical analysis of intercultural (mis)recognition and "what one does for work" is anchored in a reconstruction of all three of Honneth's critical conceptions of work, and thus esteem recognition associated with the norms of achievement, contribution and performance in the realm of paid occupations.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64194-2_6

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