Dirty work [electronic resource] : concepts and identities /
Simpson, R.editor.
Slutskaya, N.editor.
Lewis, P.editor.
Höpfl, H.editor.
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts and Identities""; ""2 Dirty Work and Acts of Contamination""; ""3 Stains, Staining and the Ethics of Dirty Work""; ""4 From High Flyer to Crook â€? How Can We Understand the Stigmatisation of Investment Bankers during the Financial Crisis?""; ""5 â€?Glamour Girls, Macho Men and Everything In Betweenâ€?: Un/doing Gender and Dirty Work in Sohoâ€?s Sex Shops""; ""6 Doing Gender in Dirty Work: Exotic Dancersâ€? Construction of Self-Enhancing Identities""
""7 Dirty Talks and Gender Cleanliness: An Account of Identity Management Practices in Phone Sex Work""""8 Embracing Dirt in Nursing Matters""; ""9 Dispersing of Dirt: Inscribing Bodies and Polluting Organisation""; ""10 Gendering and Embodying Dirty Work: Men Managing Taint in the Context of Nursing Care""; ""11 Cleaning Up? Transnational Corporate Femininity and Dirty Work in Magazine Culture""; ""12 Managing â€?Dirtyâ€? Migrant Identities: Migrant Labour and the Neutralisation of Dirty Work through â€?Moralâ€? Group Identity""
""13 Post-Feminism and Entrepreneurship: Interpreting Disgust in a Female Entrepreneurial Narrative""""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed.
Sociology.
Industrial sociology.
Organization.
Planning.
Office management.
Economic sociology.
Industrial psychology.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of Work.
Organization.
Office Management.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology.