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 and Head of Sociology at the University of Leicester. His research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics and regulation. Authored and co-authored/edited works include Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (Bloomsbury 2013); Visual Methods (Sage, 2012);Internet Research Methods (Sage, 2012); Documentary and Archival Research (Sage, 2014); Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury, 2013), and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007).Natasha Slutskaya is a Lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel Business School, UK. Her research interests include organizational identity and creativity and embodiment. She has recent publications in Organization, Qualitative Research in Management and Organizations and Work Employment and Society.

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• Chapter One: Introduction-. PART ONE: Theories and Concepts: Dirt, Gender and Class-. Chapter Two: Embodying Dirty Work-. Chapter Three: Dirt in Material Worlds-. Chapter Four: Dirt as Relational-. Chapter Five: White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work-. PART TWO: Occupational Contexts-. Chapter Six: Notions of Sacrifice: The Meanings Butchers give to their Work-. Chapter Seven: Paradoxes of Recognition and Dirty Work-. Chapter Eight: Resistance in Dirty Work: Street Cleaners and Refuse Collectors-. Chapter Nine: Space, Place and Dirty Work: The Experiences of Street Cleaners, Refuse Collectors and Graffiti Removers-. Chapter Ten: Emotional Dimensions of Dirty Work: Butchers and the Meat Trade-. Chapter Eleven: Researching Dirty Work-. Chapter Twelve: Conclusion-. References-.

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 and Head of Sociology at the University of Leicester. His research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics and regulation. Authored and co-authored/edited works include Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (Bloomsbury 2013); Visual Methods (Sage, 2012);Internet Research Methods (Sage, 2012); Documentary and Archival Research (Sage, 2014); Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury, 2013), and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007).Natasha Slutskaya is a Lecturer of Organization Studies at Brunel Business School, UK. Her research interests include organizational identity and creativity and embodiment. She has recent publications in Organization, Qualitative Research in Management and Organizations and Work Employment and Society.

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• Chapter One: Introduction-. PART ONE: Theories and Concepts: Dirt, Gender and Class-. Chapter Two: Embodying Dirty Work-. Chapter Three: Dirt in Material Worlds-. Chapter Four: Dirt as Relational-. Chapter Five: White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work-. PART TWO: Occupational Contexts-. Chapter Six: Notions of Sacrifice: The Meanings Butchers give to their Work-. Chapter Seven: Paradoxes of Recognition and Dirty Work-. Chapter Eight: Resistance in Dirty Work: Street Cleaners and Refuse Collectors-. Chapter Nine: Space, Place and Dirty Work: The Experiences of Street Cleaners, Refuse Collectors and Graffiti Removers-. Chapter Ten: Emotional Dimensions of Dirty Work: Butchers and the Meat Trade-. Chapter Eleven: Researching Dirty Work-. Chapter Twelve: Conclusion-. References-.