Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
21 February 2007
NORMALIZING DIRTY WORK Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Blake Ashforth, Rusty Lyon Chair in Strategy in the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University and co-author of Normalizing Dirty Work: Managerial Tactics for Countering Occupational Taint, a research study which looked at how 54 managers, in 18 ‘dirty work’ occupations in America, utilise a series of social tactics to ‘normalise’ the social stigma attached to their occupation.
They discuss how workers, who are employed in a dirty occupation, are able to retain a relatively high occupational self esteem and pride.
FENIAN DIASPORA Dr Gerry Kearns, Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge talks about his current research into the Irish abroad and their effect upon terrorist activities at home during the late 19th century. Dr Kearns examines the ‘Fenian Diaspora’ to look for the mechanisms that underly relationships between emigrants and nationalist conflicts at home.
Additional information:
Professor Blake Ashforth, Rusty Lyon Chair, W.P. Carey School of Business and a Fellow of the Academy of Management at Arizona State University
Dr Gerry Kearns, Senior Lecturer in Geography and director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge and Historical Geography Convenor for the European Social Science History Association.
