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Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: "I See You"
Part One: The Research Study, Research Sites, and Researcher
Chapter 1: You Must Have Done Something Wrong
The Right Kind of Wrong
What's Wrong?
Writing Wrongs
Note
Chapter 2: Research Site Insights
Cleaning Insights
Research Sites
Historical and Political Insights
Insights Unseen
Chapter 3: Coming Clean: Ethnographic Origins and Milieus
The Subjective "I" and "Eye"
Lessons Learned
Part Two: The Custodial Life: Family and Fear
Chapter 4: Pathways to a Cleaner['s] Life
Career Immobility
Upward Mobility
Downward Mobility
The Allure of Custodial Work on College Campuses
Left Behind and Losing Ground
Chapter 5: The Custodian Life
Mr. Clean
An All-Purpose Cleaner
The Grim Sweeper
Grime Scenes
Chapter 6: The Supervising Life
The Clean Team
The Buffer
Worker-Manager Strife
Chapter 7: Fear the Worst
Primal Fear
Fear Factors
Caste-Away Fears
Chapter 8: Family Matters
Family Feuds
The CU Family
The HU Family
Family Therapy
Part Three: Corporate Managerialism and Civic Disengagement
Chapter 9: The Corporate Creep
Business as [Un]Usual
How's Business? Not So Good
Getting Down to Business
A Corporate Managerialism Business Model
Going out of Business
Chapter 10: Soiled Educational Aspirations and Civic Disengagement
Doing More Harm Than Good
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Too Bad
Part Four: Education and Possibilities
Chapter 11: The Courage to be (in Trouble)
Urine Trouble
Troublemakers
Trouble in Paradise
Notes
Chapter 12: A Dog's Life
Having a Dog's Chance
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Dog-ma
Epilogue
Compton University Staff Updates.
Harrison University Staff Updates
Miami University Staff Updates
Appendix A: Research Methodologies and Methods
Philosophical Foundations
Influences on Fieldwork Methods
Writing
Goodness Criteria
Appendix B: Unsanitized Tales from the Field
Omissions Accomplished
Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread
Conclusion
References
Index.
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: "I See You"
Part One: The Research Study, Research Sites, and Researcher
Chapter 1: You Must Have Done Something Wrong
The Right Kind of Wrong
What's Wrong?
Writing Wrongs
Note
Chapter 2: Research Site Insights
Cleaning Insights
Research Sites
Historical and Political Insights
Insights Unseen
Chapter 3: Coming Clean: Ethnographic Origins and Milieus
The Subjective "I" and "Eye"
Lessons Learned
Part Two: The Custodial Life: Family and Fear
Chapter 4: Pathways to a Cleaner['s] Life
Career Immobility
Upward Mobility
Downward Mobility
The Allure of Custodial Work on College Campuses
Left Behind and Losing Ground
Chapter 5: The Custodian Life
Mr. Clean
An All-Purpose Cleaner
The Grim Sweeper
Grime Scenes
Chapter 6: The Supervising Life
The Clean Team
The Buffer
Worker-Manager Strife
Chapter 7: Fear the Worst
Primal Fear
Fear Factors
Caste-Away Fears
Chapter 8: Family Matters
Family Feuds
The CU Family
The HU Family
Family Therapy
Part Three: Corporate Managerialism and Civic Disengagement
Chapter 9: The Corporate Creep
Business as [Un]Usual
How's Business? Not So Good
Getting Down to Business
A Corporate Managerialism Business Model
Going out of Business
Chapter 10: Soiled Educational Aspirations and Civic Disengagement
Doing More Harm Than Good
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Too Bad
Part Four: Education and Possibilities
Chapter 11: The Courage to be (in Trouble)
Urine Trouble
Troublemakers
Trouble in Paradise
Notes
Chapter 12: A Dog's Life
Having a Dog's Chance
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Dog-ma
Epilogue
Compton University Staff Updates.
Harrison University Staff Updates
Miami University Staff Updates
Appendix A: Research Methodologies and Methods
Philosophical Foundations
Influences on Fieldwork Methods
Writing
Goodness Criteria
Appendix B: Unsanitized Tales from the Field
Omissions Accomplished
Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread
Conclusion
References
Index.