ABSTRACT

Previous chapters in this book have considered a wide range of literature, albeit necessarily providing a selective coverage of the various chapter themes. In this concluding chapter I want to reflect on this content and consider issues that seem to me to be central to the issue of identity at work, as well as to consider how we might respond to the situation described in the various chapters. The two issues I want to consider in greatest detail here are those of intersectionality and solidarity. The first of these relates to the relationship between the various identity categories identified in previous chapters, while the second is relevant to the question of what is being done and what can be done – it goes to the politics of the matter. Before considering these two issues, however, I want to draw out some key themes that seem to me to run through the various chapters, the themes of identification and related terms.