Index
ISBN: 978-1-83608-149-4, eISBN: 978-1-83608-148-7
ISSN: 0277-2833
Publication date: 3 October 2024
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(2024), "Index", Helfen, M., Delbridge, R., Pekarek, A.(A). and Purser, G. (Ed.) Essentiality of Work (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 36), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 189-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320240000036010
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2024 Markus Helfen, Rick Delbridge, Andreas (Andi) Pekarek and Gretchen Purser
INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by n indicate notes.
Advocacy
, 30–32
Aesthetic preferences
, 143, 146
Aesthetics
, 150–154
Age distribution of essential workers, 137
Alienation
, 178
Altruistic motivations
, 7, 60, 75
Apprenticeship
, 151
Armistice Day
, (see Remembrance Day)
Authentic selves
, 58
Authenticity
, 7, 59, 74–77
Black and Hispanic/Latinx workers
, 111
Boundary work
, 147–148
Breaching experiment
, 59
care work and management of emotions
, 60–63
data collection and analysis
, 65–67
emotion management and professional feeling rules during COVID-19
, 67–74
research strategy and methodology
, 63–67
Capitalist production
, 112
Care aides
, 82, 84–85, 88
Care labour
, 42
Care penalty
, 16
Care philosophy
, 65
Care work
, 3, 5–6, 14, 41–45, 58–63
Care workers
, 13, 17, 24–28, 30–32, 60, 62, 68
CareCoop
, 18, 24, 27
Caregivers
, 61
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
, 46
Centres d’hébergement de soins de longue durée (CHSLD)
, 88
Certified Floral Designers (CFD)
, 148
‘CFC’
, 147
Civil Rights Movement
, 115
Cleaning
, 41
Combinatory ethnography
, 150
Commercial feeling rules
, 61
Commodification
of reproductive labour
, 112, 114
of social reproduction
, 112
Concept of essentiality
, 133
Contestation
, 98–99
COVID-19 pandemic
, 2, 7–8, 13, 40, 59, 65, 82, 118
care work
, 41–45
custodial services staff at Prairie University
, 50–53
invisibilization
, 41–45
methodology and research design, 45–47
policy construction of custodial work as essential labour
, 47–50
COVID-19 safety and cleaning labour, 51–53
‘Critical infrastructure’ workers
, 112–113
Critical juncture
, 2
Current Population Survey’s Merged Outgoing Rotation Group file (CPS-MORG)
, 119
Custodial services
employees
, 40
staff at Prairie University
, 50–53
Custodial work
as care labour
, 43–45
federal definitions
, 47–48
municipal definitions of essential work
, 49–50
policy construction of custodial work as essential labour
, 47
state definitions
, 48–49
Custodial workers
, 40
Custodians
, 40
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
, 46, 112
Deep-acting
, 61
Dehumanization of work
, 144
Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
, 49
Designations of essential vs. non-essential labor
, 40
‘Devaluation’ perspective
, 42, 115, 117
Dirty care work
, 14, 18, 27–28, 33–34
Dirty work
, 6–7, 12, 16–18, 21
to essentiality in times of crisis
, 84–85
genuine valuation of dirty work in society
, 99–101
scholarship
, 34
studies
, 14
wound clinicians
, 21–24
Discourse
, 98–99
Discourses of essentiality
, 82
Discrete skills
, 83
Discrimination
, 115–116
Division Street
, 178
Dramas of Dignity (Costas)
, 165–166
Effective care provision
, 60
Elderly care homes
, 3
Emancipation
, 166
Emancipatory potential
, 174
of ethnographic research
, 178
Emotion management
, 7, 12, 15, 60–63, 67–74
data analysis
, 20
data collection
, 18–19
dirt y work
, 16–18
gender and
, 14–16
methods
, 18–20
performances
, 64
practices
, 7, 62
in pre-pandemic times
, 67–68
of residential care workers
, 58
stigma management
, 20–32
Emotions
, 14
labour
, 60–61
work
, 24
Empathizing
, 17
Empirical insights
, 72
Essential care occupations
, 14
Essential labour
, 7, 40, 54, 128
Essential work
, 2, 8, 40–41, 83, 110, 164
peculiarities
, 165
recognition and dignity to public value and reward
, 4–6
Essential workers
, 2–4, 8, 85, 110–115
analytic approach
, 122–123
data and methods
, 119–123
data source and sample
, 119–120
intersectional perspective on valuation of essential work, 115–119
results
, 123–131
variable measurement
, 120–122
wage gaps
, 127–129
Essentiality
, 45, 60, 111
discourse
, 92
emergence of political and public discourse on
, 92–94
of work
, 2, 6
Ethnicity
, 110, 112
Ethnographers
, 164
Ethnographic fieldwork
, 147
Ethnographic research
, 143, 146, 159, 170, 178–179
Ethnographic scholarship
, 144
Ethnographic studies
, 164
contextualizing and introducing studies
, 165–167
Dramas of Dignity (Costas)
, 167–170
of essential work
, 143
Grenzen aus Glas (Birke)
, 170–174
Ethnography
, 179
Ethos
, 68
Eureka database
, 86
Expendable workers
, 3
Expertise
, 146–149
Exploratory ethnography of wound healing
, 18
Exposure to COVID-19
, 48
Face-saving-strategies
, 154–157
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
, 117
Feeling rules
, 61
Floral culture
, 151
Floral designers
, 146
Floral ethics
, 146
and aesthetics
, 150–154
face-saving-strategies
, 154–157
licensing and expertise
, 147–149
methods, data, and setting
, 149–150
Florist
, 146
occupation
, 146–148, 151
Garfinkel’s concept
, 59
Gender
, 14–16, 110–112
Gendered care work
, 6–7, 14, 34
Gendered organizations
, 15
Gendering
, 15
Germany
, 165
‘Getting through it together’
, 71–74
Government policies
, 7, 40
Grenzen aus Glas (Birke)
, 165–166
Grief in neo-natal nursing
, 15
Health and social care systems
, 8, 82, 100
Health system
, 87
Health-related quality of life
, 28–30
Healthcare professionals
, 15
Healthcare workers
, 87
Home care aids
, 17
Hospitals
, 3
Human capital
, 8, 111, 115, 118, 121, 123, 127, 130
Independency
, 30–32
Inequality
, 42
Inessential workers
, 2
Information technology (IT)
, 113
Institutionalised care
, 31
Institutionalization
, 8, 100
‘Intentional initiation’ of disruptive crises
, 65
International Labour Office (ILO)
, 4
Intersectional inequality research
, 115
Intersectional lens
, 8, 115, 131
Intersectional perspective
, 110
Intersectional wage gaps
, 111, 129–131
Intersectional wage inequalities
, 8, 111, 131
Interviews
, 178
Invisibilization
, 41–45
Jana Costas
, 143, 165–166
Labour markets
, 2–4, 63, 77, 99
characteristics
, 110
Labour shortage
, 5
Labour studies
, 144
License
, 149
Licensing
, 147–149
Listening
, 17
Lockdown
, 70–71
Low-status occupational groups
, 83
Low-status workers
, 8
Management by labor turnover
, 172
Management practices
, 84
Masculine heroism
, 17
Meat processing
, 3
Media
, 4
‘Menial’ care labour
, 42
Migrant workers
, 167, 170
Mini job
, 6
Motivations
, 62
Multidimensional analysis
, 61
National Labor Relations Act of 1935
, 117
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
, 117–118
Necessity shield
, 32, 34
Non-essential workers
, 8
Non-nurturant care work
, 42–43
Normative hegemony
, 84
Nurturant care work
, 42–43
Nurturant/non-nurturant binaries
, 43
Occupational communities
, 7, 12, 33, 35
Occupational group
, 8, 13, 17, 86, 99, 101, 147
Occupational legitimacy
, 143, 159
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
, 46
Occupational segregation
, 83
Oral history
, 166
Ordinary least squares (OLS)
, 122
Organizational feeling rules
, 15, 61
Organizational model
, 65
Packaging plants
, 3
Pandemic challenges
, 3
Parcel delivery centres
, 3
Pecuniary emotion work
, 15
Performativity
, 8, 82–83
of discourse
, 85–86
Peter Birke
, 143, 165–166, 170
Philanthropic emotional management, 16
, 58
Physical taint
, 13, 17–18
Policy landscape
, 40, 45–47
Policymakers
, 4
Political discourse on essentiality
, 92–94
Political elites
, 83
Politics
, 83
comparison of occupations performing care work
, 89–91
conceptual background
, 83–86
data sources
, 86–87
discourse, contestation, and social change
, 98–99
emergence of political and public discourse on essentiality
, 92–94
genuine valuation of dirty work in society
, 99–101
gradual restoration of pre-pandemic labour regime
, 94–96
methodology
, 86–87
promulgation of discourse of essentiality and signs of recognition
, 97–98
research context
, 87–91
research design
, 86
Power asymmetry
, 143
Prairie University
, 46, 55n1
custodial services staff at
, 50–53
Pre-pandemic labour regime, gradual restoration of
, 94–96
Pre-pandemic times, emotion management in
, 67–68
Precarious nature of essential work
, 144
Precarious work settings
, 2, 4
Precarity of work
, 9, 167
Prescriptive emotion management
, 15, 58
Presentational emotional management
, 15–16, 58
Privatization
, 5
Profession
, 146
Professional blunting
, 29
Professional competencies
, 148
Professional ethos
, 59
Professional expertise
, 143, 147, 155
Professional face
, 63
Professional feeling rules
, 15, 61–62
of care workers
, 59
during COVID-19
, 67–74
Professional groups
, 17
Professional ideology
, 147
Professional work
, 59–60, 146
ethos
, 60
Promulgation of discourse of essentiality and signs of recognition
, 97–98
Pseudonyms
, 19
Public discourse on essentiality
, 92–94
Public health measures
, 8
Public policy implications
, 4
Quebec healthcare system
, 87
Race
, 110, 112
Racial earnings inequality
, 116
Recalibrating
, 16–17
Refocussing
, 16–17
Reframing
, 16–17
Relational work
, 7, 32–33
Relevance of working
, 3
Remembrance Day
, 68, 77n2
Reproductive labour
, 112
Residential care homes
, 71
Residential care workers
, 60
Sanitization
, 41
Schools
, 3
Segregation
, 115
Sensitizing concepts
, 67
Sentimental work
, 61
Service relationships
, 146
Service work
, 168
Short-term commercial interactions
, 60
Skills
, 12, 25, 28–29, 118
Smiling through mask
, 69–70
Social care
, 12, 64
Social change
, 85–86, 98–99
Social distancing
, 70–71
Social fabric of exclusion within labour markets
, 83–84
Social feeling rules
, 15, 61
Social inequality
, 111
Social processes
, 67
Social stability
, 111
Social stigma
, 13, 28
Social stratification
, 111
Social taint
, 12, 17
Societal integration
, 5
implications
, 5
Sociology of work
, 6, 144, 146
Spiritual/menial binaries
, 43
‘Spiritual’ care labour
, 42
‘Stay Home–Work Safe’ order
, 49–50, 55n3
Stigma
, 12
literature on
, 14
management
, 12, 17, 20–32
strategies
, 13
Stigmatizing work roles
, 143, 167
‘Structure-agency’ dilemma
, 164
Studs Terkel
, 178
Subcontracted cleaning services
, 5
Surface acting
, 61
Swiss apprenticeship system
, 148
Swiss miracle
, 147
Symbolic devaluation of women
, 42
Systemic racism
, 8, 110, 117
Tensions in work
, 146, 158
Theory of performativity
, 98
Truly caring
, 17
Trust
, 155
US labour market
, 148
Valourization of care work
, 97
Wage gap
, 110
Wagner Act
, (see National Labor Relations Act of 1935)
White women
, 42
Women’s work
, 42
Work
, 12
purpose of
, 28–30
Work environment
, 60
Work well done
, 143, 146–147, 156–157
Workers
, 13, 58
Working (book)
, 144, 178
Coda
, 187
ethnographic encounters
, 178–179
on the job
, 179–184
waking up the human animal
, 184–187
Wound care
, 13
Wound clinicians
, 21–24, 28–30
Wound stigma
, 22
- Prelims
- Chapter 1: Essential Work, Inessential Workers?
- Chapter 2: Doing Essential ‘Dirty Work’: Making Visible the Emotion Management Skills in Gendered Care Work
- Chapter 3: Defining Essential: How Custodial Labour Became Synonymous with Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 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’
- Chapter 5: The Politics of Essentiality: Praise for Dirty Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Chapter 6: Essential Workers in the United States: An Intersectional Perspective
- A Note from the Editors: Introducing ‘Spotlight on Ethnography’
- Chapter 7: Floral Ethics and Aesthetics: Understanding Professional Expertise at Work
- Chapter 8: Ethnographic Studies of Essential Work: Jana Costas' ‘Dramas of Dignity’ and Peter Birke's ‘Grenzen aus Glas’ as Two German Exemplars
- Chapter 9: ‘More Than a Slight Ache’: On the Ethnographic Sensibility and Enduring Relevance of Studs Terkel's Working
- Index