Gender, Class and Occupation

Working Class Men doing Dirty Work
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-43967-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4753 g

This
insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and
Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of ‘dirty’
work. Based on a unique study of male street
cleaners, refuse collectors, graffiti removers and butchers, and drawing on
Bourdieu as a theoretical frame, it presents an ‘embodied’ understanding of
‘dirty’ work. Gender, Work and Occupation
explores new avenues of workplace studies, highlighting how material
conditions both support and constrain processes of occupation-based ideological
constructions. Using original field research, the authors put forward a
different agenda in terms of how we think about dirty work, and how we can
explore and understand the ‘lived experiences’ of dirty workers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Ruth

Slutskaya, Natasha

Hughes, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction-. PART ONE: Theories and Concepts: Dirt, Gender and Class-. Chapter Two: Embodying Dirty Work-. Chapter Three: Dirt in Material Worlds-. Chapter Four: Dirt as Relational-. Chapter Five: White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work-. PART TWO: Occupational Contexts-. Chapter Six: Notions of Sacrifice: The Meanings Butchers give to their Work-. Chapter Seven: Paradoxes of Recognition and Dirty Work-. Chapter Eight: Resistance in Dirty Work: Street Cleaners and Refuse Collectors-. Chapter Nine: Space, Place and Dirty Work: The Experiences of Street Cleaners, Refuse Collectors and Graffiti Removers-. Chapter Ten: Emotional Dimensions of Dirty Work: Butchers and the Meat Trade-. Chapter Eleven: Researching Dirty Work-. Chapter Twelve: Conclusion-. References-.

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Simpson is Professor of Management at Brunel Business School,
UK. Her research interests include dirty work, gender and organizations, gender
and careers, and emotions in organizations. She has recent publications in Organization, Gender Work and Organization,
Human Relations, Work Employment and
Society and British Journal of
Management.

Jason Hughes is Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of Leicester. His research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics and regulation. Authored and co-authored/edited works include Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (Bloomsbury 2013); Visual Methods (Sage, 2012);Internet Research Methods (Sage, 2012); Documentary and Archival Research (Sage, 2014); Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury, 2013), and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007).

Natasha Slutskaya is a Lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel
Business School, UK. Her research interests include organizational identity and
creativity and embodiment. She has recent publications in Organization, Qualitative Research in Management and Organizations and Work Employment and
Society.