Jana Costas

Dramas of Dignity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Costas explores the hidden underworld of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, where cleaners seek dignity through work yet find it elusive. This book will appeal to anyone interested in taking a behind-the-scenes look at the working lives of cleaners who largely remain invisible yet cater to most of us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781108475846
• ISBN-10: 1108475841
• Artikelnr.: 62533390

Autorenporträt

Jana Costas is Chair of People, Work & Management at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is the co-author of Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life (2016). Awards include the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship and the Best-Critical-Paper Award 2020 of the Academy of Management.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The corporate micro-city Potsdamer Platz: Cleaners' presence from below
2. Characters from the corporate underworld: Alex, Ali, Luisa, and Marcel
3. From feces to flowers: The sweat, shame, disgust, pride and fun of working with dirt
4. Separate in the same boat: Others and allies among cleaners
5. When worlds collide: Cleaners at work in the upperworld
6. 'Back to the dark side': Cleaners' tactics against surveillance
7. Leaving the minus area behind
Postscript
Bibliography
Appendix
Index.