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.
Editors and Affiliations
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
About the editors
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
