Organizational scholars have treated emotions mostly as an individual‐level phenomenon,
with limited theorisation of emotions as an important component in social embeddedness. In …

Dirty work research has long analytically prioritized focusing on the people who do dirty
work, largely sidestepping who the clients of dirty work are and what contribution they can …

There is now a substantial body of literature on the coping strategies used by workers
employed in stigmatized dirty work. However, there is insufficient knowledge about what …

The funeral and mortuary sector, including funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria, is a
largely neglected sector in regard to the study of occupational factors that can affect the …

The lived experience of returning to work after a bereavement remains relatively under
researched. Within sociology, the notion of emotional labour has been explored at length …

When someone dies, it is usual for relatives to gather at a funeral to embody a collective act
of eulogy for the deceased and stand against the finality of death. When someone who lived …

Prevailing dualisms of work as formal, paid employment on the one hand or informal, unpaid
domestic labour on the other, means volunteering is often overlooked. Although academic …

Confronting death and suffering represent central work-related contents in the funeral
industry occupations. Despite past research evidence on the role of psychosocial risks, a …

This paper problematizes micro-level conceptualizations of extreme work to develop new
research directions. The paper shows how frontline healthcare workers interpret and …

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