This article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power relations, space, and institutions in understanding how and why informal workers create and maintain power-laden divisions between themselves. The article argues that organizing efforts that seek to overcome divisions between informal workers cannot simply exhort them to unite based on abstract principles, but must actively transform the places and institutions forged by these workers through which they create and crystallize divisive identities and power relations.

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破坏团结：权力的产生和组织非正式索取者的挑战

本文介绍了在南非索韦托的玛丽·路易丝（Marie Louise）垃圾填埋场中，取回者如何根据国籍相互反对，而不是团结起来对抗2008年全球经济危机的影响而细致入微的社会历史。通过对某一特定垃圾场的斗争的叙述，本文通过理论化身份，权力关系，空间和制度的重要性在理解非正式工人如何以及为什么建立和维持充满权力的分歧的重要性上，为非正式工人的组织组织的辩论做出了贡献。他们之间。该文章认为，组织努力克服非正式工人之间的分歧的努力不能简单地劝诫他们根据抽象原则团结起来，