Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities (Identity Studies in the Social Sciences)

This Book Explores New Understandings And Contemporary Experiences Of 'dirty Work' -- Tasks Or Roles That Are Seen To Be Disgusting Or Degrading. Through Novel Empirical Sites That Include Nursing, Medicalization, Sex Workers, Sex Call Operators, Financiers And Women's Magazines, The Book Offers New Theoretical Insights Into A Form Of Work That Is Increasing In Significance In The Contemporary Labour Market. By Drawing On Concepts Such As Staining, Embodiment And 'whiteness', It Complicates The Clean/dirty Divide In The Context Of Work And Contributes To Understandings Of Dirty Work As Contingent, Fluid And Socially Constructed. It Offers Rich Insights Into The Complex Ways In Which Such Work Is Experienced And The Variety Of Strategies Drawn On As Dirty Workers Seek To Manage Identity--provided By Publisher. Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts And Identities / R. Simpson, N. Slutskaya, P. Lewis And H. Höpfl -- Dirty Work And Acts Of Contamination / H. Höpfl -- Stains, Staining And The Ethics Of Dirty Work / S. Vachhani -- Reconceptualising Dirty Work: Investment Banking And The Financial Crisis / L. Stanley -- 'glamour Girls, Macho Men And Everything In Between': Un/doing Gender And Dirty Work In Soho's Sex Shops / M. Tyler -- Doing Gender In Dirty Work: Exotic Dancers' Construction Of Self-enhancing Identities / G. Grandy And S. Mavin -- Dirty Talks And Gender Cleanliness: An Account Of Identity Management Practices In Phone Sex Work / G. Selmi -- Embracing Dirt In Nursing Matters / R. Mcmurray -- Dispersing Of Dirt: Inscribing Bodies And Polluting Organisation / P. White And A. Pullen -- Gendering And Embodying Dirty Work: Men Managing Taint In The Context Of Nursing Care / R. Simpson, N. Slutskaya And J. Hughes -- Cleaning Up: Transnational Corporate Femininity And Dirty Work In Magazine Culture / E. Swan -- Managing 'dirty' Migrant Identities: Migrant Labour And The Neutralisation Of Dirty Work Through 'moral' Group Identity / G. Lee-treweek -- Post-feminism And Entrepreneurship: Interpreting Disgust In A Female Entrepreneurial Narrative / P. Lewis. Edited By Ruth Simpson [and Others]. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 239-261) And Index.