Through an ethnographic study of commercial microlending in urban India, this article examines how “everyday†financialization reinscribes class and gender hierarchies in working†class communities at global finance's outer edges. Relatively privileged women deploy their knowledge of their communities to organize women, sometimes coercively, into precise formations that meet the exacting requirements of corporate microfinance institutions (MFIs). Through “social work,†powerful volunteers can convert intimate financial knowledge of households in their neighborhoods into social and cultural power. Concomitantly, MFIs aiming to funnel global capital into marginal neighborhoods achieve financial sustainability.

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贷款和生计：印度城市地区的性别“社会工作”

通过对印度城市商业小额贷款的人种学研究，本文研究了“日常”金融化如何在全球金融最边缘的工人阶级社区重新定义阶级和性别等级制度。相对特权的妇女利用其社区知识来组织妇女，有时甚至是强制性地将她们组织成符合公司小额信贷机构（MFI）严格要求的精确组织。通过“社会工作”，强大的志愿者可以将附近家庭的金融知识转化为社会和文化力量。同时，旨在将全球资本汇入边缘社区的小额信贷机构实现了金融可持续性。