Wilfredo Alvarez

Everyday Dirty Work

Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner, 2023 NCA Ethnography Division Best Book Award Wilfredo Alvarez's Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor is an exploration into co-cultural communication practices within the workplace. Specifically, Alvarez investigates how Latin American immigrant janitors communicate from their marginalized standpoints in a predominantly White academic organization. He examines how custodial workers perceive, interpret, and thematize routine messages regarding race, ethnicity, social class, immigrant status, and occupation, and how those messages and overall communicative experiences affect both their work and personal lives. A Latin American immigrant himself, Alvarez relates his own experiences to those of the research participants. His positionality informs and enhances his research as he demonstrates how everyday interpersonal encounters create discursive spaces that welcome or disqualify people based on symbolic and social capital. Alvarez offers valuable insights into the lived experiences of critical--but often undervalued and invisible--organizational members. Through theoretical insights and research data, he provides practical recommendations for organizational leaders to improve how they can relate to and support all stakeholders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Ohio State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780814258262
• ISBN-10: 0814258263
• Artikelnr.: 62811145

Autorenporträt

Wilfredo Alvarez is Associate Professor of Communication and Media at Utica University.