scholarly journals You stay home, but we can't: Invisible ‘dirty’ work as calling amid COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 103667
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Sharma ◽  
Koustab Ghosh ◽  
Madhurima Mishra ◽  
Smriti Anand
Keyword(s):  
Dirty Work

Dirty Work? Development And Validation Of A Measure Of Perceived Occupational Stigma

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwenith G. Fisher ◽  
Kevin M. Walters ◽  
Lauren M. Menger
Keyword(s):  
Dirty Work ◽  
Development And Validation

Images of the Hospice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Baron ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Fiona Cheetham ◽  
Sudi Sharifi
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Palliative Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Hospice Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Dirty Work ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Host Organization ◽  
Local Healthcare

This chapter looks ‘outside’ the Hospice at issues of the organization’s image. The authors talked to staff, volunteers, and members of the general public, as well as to a number of key stakeholders in the local healthcare community, in order to gauge their views on the host organization. The analysis examines the problems associated with the image of hospices and discusses attempts of staff and volunteers to ‘dispel the myths’ about the nature of hospice care work—a form of labour which potentially runs the risk of being characterized as ‘dirty work’. The chapter then examines how the Hospice is seen in the eyes of other healthcare professionals and discusses the choice of palliative medicine as a career for junior medics. Finally it discusses a degree of ‘confusion’ that staff and volunteers claim exists in the minds of GPs and consultants in specialist cancer hospitals about the role of hospices.

Assertiveness: The Meek Inherit the Dirty Work

1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Beverly Nussbaumer
Keyword(s):  
Dirty Work

scholarly journals Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110087
Author(s):  
Linda Tallberg ◽  
Peter J Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Animal Shelter ◽  
Dirty Work ◽  
And Control

Working with animals is a daily occurrence for millions of people who often complete tasks which are tainted, in spite of the work being seen as essential in modern society. Animal shelter-work is such an occupation. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of the caring–killing paradox (a dissonance that workers face when killing animals they are also caring for), through an insider ethnographic study. We find that care-based animal dirty work consists of unique ambiguities and tensions related to powerlessness, deception and secrecy in the work based on a ‘processing-plant’ framework which informs how workers deal with unwanted animals. We find competing ideologies of care and control to be foundational in this work.

Dirty Work and Dirtier Work: Differences in Countering Physical, Social, and Moral Stigma

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake E. Ashforth ◽  
Glen E. Kreiner
Keyword(s):  
Distinct Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Identity Threat ◽  
Dirty Work ◽  
Exotic Dancers ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Group A

The literature on dirty work has focused on what physically (e.g., garbage collectors), socially (e.g., addiction counsellors), and morally (e.g., exotic dancers) stigmatized occupations have in common, implying that dirty work is a relatively monolithic construct. In this article, we focus on thedifferencesbetween these three forms of dirty work and how occupational members collectively attempt to counter the particular stigma associated with each. We argue that the largest differences are between moral dirty work and the other two forms; if physical and social dirty work tend to be seen as more necessary than evil, then moral dirty work tends to be seen as more evil than necessary. Moral dirty work typically constitutes a graver identity threat to occupational members, fostering greater entitativity (a sense of being a distinct group), a greater reliance on members as social buffers, and a greater use of condemning condemners and organization-level defensive tactics. We develop a series of propositions to formalize our arguments and suggest how this more nuanced approach to studying dirty work can stimulate and inform future research.

Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072098691
Author(s):  
Samantha Keene
Keyword(s):  
Young Female ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Dirty Work ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Female Researcher

Sex and sexuality research can be understood as a form of ‘dirty work’, as despite its public need, it continues to be marginalised and demeaned within the academy and beyond. Through association, sex and sexuality researchers come to be labelled ‘dirty workers’ and are vulnerable to experiencing a range of stigmatised responses and negative repercussions. This article contributes to knowledge about the challenges involved in doing dirty work, through reflexively examining my experiences as a doctoral researcher investigating pornography’s gendered influence. It explores the various institutional, professional and personal hurdles that I encountered during my dirty work journey and illustrates how these experiences may have been affected by my identity as a young, female researcher.

Bilateral or Multilateral? International Financial Flows and the Dirty-Work Hypothesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Dreher ◽  
Valentin Lang ◽  
B. Peter Rosendorff ◽  
James Raymond Vreeland
Keyword(s):  
Dirty Work ◽  
Financial Flows
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