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Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work
Ruth Simpson
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Description for Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KJM; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 284 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137439673
SKU
V9781137439673
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Ref
99-15
About Ruth Simpson
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 ... Read more
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