Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities

by R. Simpson (Editor), N. Slutskaya (Editor), P. Lewis (Editor), H. Hïpfl (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230277137
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/17/2012
Series:	Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

KATE MACKENZIE DAVEY Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GINA GRANDY Associate Professor with the Commerce Department at the Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies at Mount Allison University, Canada JASON HUGHES Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University, UK GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK Principal Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK SHARON MAVIN Dean of Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK ROBERT MCMURRAY Senior Lecturer in Management at Durham University Business School, UK ALISON PULLEN Lecturer at Swansea University, UK GIULIA SELMI Researcher at the University of Trento, Italy LIZ STANLEY Consultant specialising in organisational change and employee engagement and studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK ELAINE SWAN Head of Academic Group at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia MELISSA TYLER Reader in Management at the University of Essex, UK SHEENA VACHHANI Lecturer in Organization Studies at the School of Business and Economics, Swansea University, UK PAUL WHITE Lecturer in the People Organizations and Work research group of Swansea University's School of Business and Economics, UK

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Contributors viii

1 Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts and Identities Ruth Simpson Natasha Slutskaya Patricia Lewis Heather Höpfl 1

2 Dirty, Work and Acts of Contamination Heather Höpfl 19

3 Stains, Staining and the Ethics of Dirty Work Sheena J. Vachhani 33

4 From High Flyer to Crook - How Can We Understand the Stigmatisation of Investment Bankers during the Financial Crisis? Liz Stanley Kate Mackenzie-Davey 49

5 'Glamour Girls, Macho Men and Everything In Between': Un/doing Gender and Dirty Work in Soho's Sex Shops Melissa Tyler 65

6 Doing Gender in Dirty Work: Exotic Dancers' Construction of Self-Enhancing Identities Gina Grandy Sharon Mavin 91

7 Dirty Talks and Gender Cleanliness: An Account of Identity Management Practices in Phone Sex Work Giulia Selmi 113

8 Embracing Dirt in Nursing Matters Robert McMurray 126

9 Dispersing of Dirt: Inscribing Bodies and Polluting Organisation Paul White Alison Pullen 143

10 Gendering and Embodying Dirty Work: Men Managing Taint in the Context of Nursing Care Ruth Simpson Natasha Slutskaya Jason Hughes 165

11 Cleaning Up? Transnational Corporate Femininity and Dirty Work in Magazine Culture Elaine Swan 182

12 Managing 'Dirty' Migrant Identities: Migrant Labour and the Neutralisation of Dirty Work through 'Moral' Group Identity Geraldine Lee-Treweek 203

13 Post-Feminism and Entrepreneurship: Interpreting Disgust in a Female Entrepreneurial Narrative Patricia Lewis 223

References 239

Index 262