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Book synopsis

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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Dirty Work
• Subtitle: Concepts and Identities
• Author: R. Simpson, N. Slutskaya, P. Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780230277137
• ISBN: 0230277136
• ID: 04553327
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 470 g
• Dimensions: 138 × 220 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2012

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