Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work

✍ Scribed by Ruth Simpson, Jason Hughes, Natasha Slutskaya (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Gender, Class and Occupation: Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Embodying Dirty Work....Pages 23-43
Dirt in Material Worlds....Pages 45-63
Dirt as Relational....Pages 65-84
White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work....Pages 85-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Notions of Sacrifice: The Meanings Butchers Give to Their Work....Pages 107-126
Disposing of Waste: Paradoxes of Recognition....Pages 127-145
Resistance in Dirty Work: Street Cleaners and Refuse Collectors....Pages 147-167
Space, Place and Dirty Work: The Experiences of Street Cleaners, Refuse Collectors and Graffiti Removers....Pages 169-187
Emotional Dimensions of Dirty Work: Butchers and the Meat Trade....Pages 189-207
Researching Dirty Work....Pages 209-232
Conclusion....Pages 233-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-277

✦ Subjects

Organization;Industries;Management;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Sociology of Work