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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 we can explore and understand the 'lived experiences' of dirty workers. 

Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work

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-.