‘lower than a snake’s belly’: discursive constructions of dignity and heroism in low-status garbage work

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  • who: Peter Hamilton from the Durham University Business School, Durham University, Mill Hill Lane, Durham , LB, UK have published the paper: ‘Lower than a Snake’s Belly’: Discursive Constructions of Dignity and Heroism in Low-Status Garbage Work, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors demonstrate how this positioning arises from contact with physical dirt and associations with socially dirty work based on ascriptions of servility abuse and ambivalence. Ackroyd contends that when voluntariness, self-organisation and commitment are absent, when discipline is not self-imposed, and money is the primary motivation, then dignity is . . .

     

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