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.

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Dirty Work
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1 Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts and Identities
2 Dirty Work and Acts of Contamination
3 Stains, Staining and the Ethics of Dirty Work
4 From High Flyer to Crook - How Can We Understand the Stigmatisation of Investment Bankers during the Financial Crisis?
5 ‗Glamour Girls, Macho Men and Everything In Between‘: Un/doing Gender and Dirty Work in Soho’s Sex Shops
6 Doing Gender in Dirty Work: Exotic Dancers’ Construction of Self-Enhancing Identities
7 Dirty Talks and Gender Cleanliness: An Account of Identity Management Practices in Phone Sex Work
8 Embracing Dirt in Nursing Matters
9 Dispersing of Dirt: Inscribing Bodies and Polluting Organisation
10 Gendering and Embodying Dirty Work: Men Managing Taint in the Context of Nursing Care
11 Cleaning Up? Transnational Corporate Femininity and Dirty Work in Magazine Culture
12 Managing ‗Dirty‘ Migrant Identities: Migrant Labour and the Neutralisation of Dirty Work through ‗Moral‘ Group Identity
13 Post-Feminism and Entrepreneurship: Interpreting Disgust in a Female Entrepreneurial Narrative
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