Book Review: Dramas of Dignity

Berger J (2007) Hold Everything Dear. London: Verso Books.

Bolton S (2007) Dimensions of Dignity a Work. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Hughes J Simpson R Slutskaya N , et al (2017) Beyond the symbolic: A relational approach to dirty work through a study of refuse collectors and street cleaners. Work, Employment & Society 31(1): 106–122.

Mahalingam R Jagannathan S Selvaraj P (2019) Decasticization, dignity, and ‘dirty work’ at the intersections of caste, memory, and disaster. Business Ethics Quarterly 29(2): 213–239.

Mitchell E (2022) More than making do: Towards a generative account of getting by on welfare benefits. Sociology 56(3): 487–503.

Press E (2022) Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America. New York: Picador.

Reckwitz A (2021) The End of Illusions. Cambridge: Polity.

Stacey C (2005) Finding dignity in dirty work: The constraints and rewards of low-wage home care labour. Sociology of Health and Illness 27(6): 831–854.

Tyler M (2011) Tainted love: From dirty work to abject labour in Soho’s sex shops. Human Relations 64(11): 1477–1500.

Wajcman J (2015) Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Zulfiqar G Prasad A (2022) How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work. Human Relations 75(11): 2160–2186.