Coworking is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. While the coworking movement emphasises equality and emancipation, there is little known about the extent to which coworking spaces as new forms of organising live up to this ideal. This study examines inequality in coworking spaces in the Netherlands, employing Acker’s framework of inequality regimes. The findings highlight coworking-specific components of inequality regimes, in particular stereotyped assumptions regarding ‘ideal members’ that establish the bases of inequality, practices that produce inequality (e.g. through the commodification of community) and practices that perpetuate inequality (e.g. the denial of inequality). The study provides an update of Acker’s framework in the context of coworking and speaks, more broadly, to the growing body of literature on (in)equality in emerging organisational contexts.

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联合办公空间中的不平等制度：新的组织形式如何（重新）产生不平等

联合办公是一种快速增长的全球现象。虽然联合办公运动强调平等和解放，但人们对联合办公空间作为新的组织形式在多大程度上实现了这一理想知之甚少。本研究采用阿克的不平等制度框架，探讨了荷兰联合办公空间中的不平等现象。研究结果强调了不平等制度中特定于联合办公的组成部分，特别是关于“理想成员”的刻板假设，这些假设奠定了不平等的基础，产生不平等的做法（例如通过社区商品化）以及使不平等永久化的做法（例如否认不平等） ）。该研究提供了阿克在联合办公背景下的框架的更新，并更广泛地阐述了新兴组织环境中越来越多的关于平等（不）平等的文献。