Essentiality of work

The Covid-19 pandemic both popularized and politicized the designation of essential work. Interrogating the dialectics of essential work, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Work presents original research that explores the essentiality of work and highlights the experiences of essential wor...

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Other Authors Helfen, Markus (Editor), Delbridge, Rick (Editor), Pekarek, Andreas (Editor), Purser, Gretchen (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of work ; v. 36.
Subjects
Work.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Influence.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781836081500
DOI10.1108/S0277-2833202436
Physical Description1 online resource (208 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Essential work, inessential workers? / Markus Helfen, Rick Delbridge, Andreas (Andi) Pekarek, and Gretchen Purser
  • Chapter 2. Doing essential 'dirty work': making visible the emotion management skills in gendered care work / Anna Milena Galazka and Sarah Jenkins
  • Chapter 3. Defining essential: how custodial labor became synonymous with safety during the COVID-19 pandemic / Annie J. Murphy
  • Chapter 4. Fear and professionalism on the front line: emotion management of residential care workers through the lens of COVID-19 as a 'breaching experiment' / Valeria Pulignano, Mê-Linh Riemann, Carol Stephenson, and Markieta Domecka
  • Chapter 5. The politics of essentiality: praise for dirty work during the COVID-19 pandemic / Nancy Côté, Jean-Louis Denis, Steven Therrien, and Flavia Sofia Ciafre
  • Chapter 6. Essential workers in the United States: an intersectional perspective / Caroline Hanley and Enobong Hannah Branch
  • A Note From the Editors: Introducing the "Spotlight on Ethnography"
  • Chapter 7. Floral ethics and aesthetics: understanding professional expertise at work / Isabelle Zinn
  • Chapter 8. Ethnographic studies of essential work: Jana Costas' 'Dramas of Dignity' and Peter Birke's 'Grenzen Aus Glas' as two german exemplars / Markus Helfen
  • Chapter 9. "More than a slight ache:" on the ethnographic sensibility and enduring relevance of Studs Terkel's working / Gretchen Purser.

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