Introduction -- The workers -- The work -- The workplace -- Public-private partnerships -- Institutional boundaries, accountability, and the integral state -- The politics of free labor: visibility and invisibility -- Valuing maintenance, valuing workers

This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of ‘dirty’ work. Based on a unique study of male street cleaners, refuse collectors, graffiti removers and butchers, and drawing on Bourdieu...