Dirty Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

   PDF

2. Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts and Identities

   • Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya, Patricia Lewis, Heather Höpfl

   Pages 1-18

3. Dirty Work and Acts of Contamination

   • Heather Höpfl

   Pages 19-32

4. Stains, Staining and the Ethics of Dirty Work

   • Sheena J. Vachhani

   Pages 33-48

5. From High Flyer to Crook – How Can We Understand the Stigmatisation of Investment Bankers during the Financial Crisis?

   • Liz Stanley, Kate Mackenzie-Davey

   Pages 49-64

6. ‘Glamour Girls, Macho Men and Everything In Between’: Un/doing Gender and Dirty Work in Soho’s Sex Shops

   • Melissa Tyler

   Pages 65-90

7. Doing Gender in Dirty Work: Exotic Dancers’ Construction of Self-Enhancing Identities

   • Gina Grandy, Sharon Mavin

   Pages 91-112

8. Dirty Talks and Gender Cleanliness: An Account of Identity Management Practices in Phone Sex Work

   • Giulia Selmi

   Pages 113-125

9. Embracing Dirt in Nursing Matters

   • Robert McMurray

   Pages 126-142

10. Dispersing of Dirt: Inscribing Bodies and Polluting Organisation

    • Paul White, Alison Pullen

    Pages 143-164

11. Gendering and Embodying Dirty Work: Men Managing Taint in the Context of Nursing Care

    • Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya, Jason Hughes

    Pages 165-181

12. Cleaning Up? Transnational Corporate Femininity and Dirty Work in Magazine Culture

    • Elaine Swan

    Pages 182-202

13. Managing ‘Dirty’ Migrant Identities: Migrant Labour and the Neutralisation of Dirty Work through ‘Moral’ Group Identity

    • Geraldine Lee-Treweek

    Pages 203-222

14. Post-Feminism and Entrepreneurship: Interpreting Disgust in a Female Entrepreneurial Narrative

    • Patricia Lewis

    Pages 223-238

15. Back Matter

    Pages 239-274

    PDF

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.

• Doing gender
• ethics
• feminism
• gender
• identity
• management
• Nation
• occupations
• organization
• organizations
• Sex
• Transnational

• Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK

  Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya

• Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK

  Patricia Lewis

• Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK

  Heather Höpfl

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

Policies and ethics