“…Here the most basic and messy elements of body work are found in the lowest status occupational roles, with distance from the body tending to increase as one ascends occupational hierarchies (Twigg, 2000;Twigg et al, 2011). Others have explored body work in relation to improving the appearance and beautification of the bodies of others; for example, hairdressers (Cohen, 2010), beauticians (Kang, 2013) and the giving of pleasure, for example, through massage (Purcell, 2013) or sex work (Chen, 2018). Body work also includes the low status work of dealing with messy, unattractive bodily waste, such as work undertaken by lavatory cleaners or undertakers (Jordan et al, 2019;Twigg, 2000).…”