| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The corporate micro-city Potsdamer Platz: cleaners' presence from below -- Characters from the corporate underworld: Alex, Ali, Luisa, and Marcel -- From feces to flowers: the sweat, shame, disgust, pride and fun of working with dirt -- Separate in the same boat: others and allies among cleaners -- When worlds collide: cleaners at work in the upperworld -- "Back to the dark side": cleaners' tactics against surveillance -- Leaving the minus area behind |
| Summary |
""Jana in the underworld," muses Norbert, a foreman with the major German cleaning company CleanUp, when I tell him I will study cleaning work at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. For Norbert, as for many cleaners, this large, four-level underworld is the nodal point of his work. Cleaners spend much of their time in what is also known as the "minus area": windowless storage and break rooms, labyrinthine corridors, stairways and elevators that descend to the lowest point - garbage collection. In the underworld's tunnels and interstices, cleaners move around and interact with fellow workers. This underworld is the setting for my ethnography of the cleaners' largely invisible work life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2022) |
| Subject |
Cleaning personnel -- Germany
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
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Cleaning personnel
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Germany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021044720 |
| ISBN |
9781108608572 |
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1108608574 |
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