Sacrifice and distinction in dirty work: men’s construction of meaning in the butcher trade

Simpson, Ruth; Hughes, Jason; Slutskaya, Natasha; Balta, Maria

doi:10.1177/0950017013510759

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“…There appears to be a clear segregation between those considered as artists, and those considered as skilled craftspeople (Hughes, 2012;Banks, 2010). The latter is the domain of those who undertake work thought to be more technical, traditional, dirty and 'hands on', and therefore perceived by some as male work (Simpson et al 2014). The former is linked to greater formal education, creativity and imagination, and primarily the domain of women (Henry, 2009).…”

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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend …? Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry

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Using Acker's (2009) concept of inequality regimes, this paper examines the practices and processes of gender inequality in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter (BJQ), highlighting the complex and subtle nature of discrimination sometimes at play and the strategies used by those that progress within this context. The project involved in-depth interviews during which participants recounted their career stories. Our research study examines the ways in which men and women in the BJQ account for their careers in order to examine the underlying gender regimes that influence the everyday practices of workers in this context. Our findings suggest that contrary to contemporary images of the creative industries, jewellery making remains deeply traditional with structures and processes that both overtly and covertly disadvantage women workers. Empirically the paper enhances our understanding of the way that this creative cluster operates and examines how that disadvantages particular groups of workers. Theoretically the paper contributes to our knowledge of the use of the concept of gender regimes at a cluster level.

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“…The organic rhythms of open-ended, unstructured 'thought-time' (Noonan, 2015: 116) or socially embedded 'process time' (Davies, 1994: 277) risk being progressively eroded through the instrumental pressures of capitalist imperatives. Workers' resistance to the alienating effects of loss of temporal control through strategies that re-ignite a sense of meaning and identity have been well documented (Simpson et al, 2014;Lopez, 2006;Sennett, 1998). However, individually negotiated solutions to the challenges of temporal control may prove inadequate in addressing embedded social and cultural patterns (Ballard and Webster, 2009).…”

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Time reclaimed: temporality and the experience of meaningful work

Bailey

Madden

2016

Work, Employment and Society

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The importance of meaningful work has been identified in scholarly work across a range of disciplines. However, empirical studies remain sparse and the potential relevance of the concept of temporality, hitherto neglected even in wider sociological studies of organisations, has not been considered in terms of the light that it can shed on the experience of work as meaningful. These two disparate bodies of thought are brought together to generate new accounts of work meaningfulness through the lens of temporality. Findings from a qualitative study of workers in three occupations with ostensibly distinct temporal landscapes are reported. All jobs had the potential to be both meaningful and meaningless; meaningfulness arose episodically through work experiences that were shared, autonomous and temporally complex. Schutz's notion of the 'vivid present' emerged as relevant to understanding how work is rendered meaningful within an individual's personal and social system of relevances.

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“…As Grandjean, we understand bureaucratic occupations or careers as the ones organized by established and accepted rules of entrance, criteria for promotion and success and explicit lines of career progression. As examples of researches beyond bureaucratic occupations, we point out Hardy and Sanders' (2015), exploration of strippers' work in the UK, Burrow, Smith and Yakinthou's (2015) description of a chef's career in the fine dining industry, and Simpson, Hughes, Slutskaya and Balta's (2014) exploration of butchers' values in dirty work.…”

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Inked Careers: Tattooing Professional Paths

DeLuca

Rocha-de-Oliveira

2016

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The concept of career has an interdisciplinary and historical constitution, which includes persons, groups, organizations and society. Given that, we aim to deepen the interactionist notion of career from the understanding of a deviant path, supported by a theory and a method appropriated to the cited call for interdisciplinary approaches. Dilemmas (Hughes, 1958) and conflicts (Hughes, 1937) emerged as important analytical categories. Although necessary, these two concepts were not sufficient to contemplate analyses in their entirety. For this reason we conceptualized a third possibility of controversy during a career: the inquiries. The study followed the Narrative method to analyze objective and subjective changes during a tattoo artist's career through interviews and informal conversations carried out over 22 months. The discussion presents three main contributions. Theoretically, a new understanding of the concept of careers, linking past, present and future and the idea of non-linearity of experienced and envisioned careers. Methodologically, suggesting orientations for future career studies such as the use of turning points as a methodological tool and the investigation of deviant fields. Finally, our defense of the interactionist perspective as suitable for career studies, since it allows the investigation of deviant elements.

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Sacrifice and distinction in dirty work: men’s construction of meaning in the butcher trade

Cited by 60 publications

References 41 publications

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend …? Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend …? Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry

Time reclaimed: temporality and the experience of meaningful work

Inked Careers: Tattooing Professional Paths

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