ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the occupational structure of a modern society, and finds a substantial number of workers who are designated as managers, whether these be people directing giant business corporations or individuals in charge of small shops or cafes. The designation of manager is used frequently and regularly across society and there is a definable type of tasks associated with the label: that of 'management'. And the same could be said of other pursuits of a more dubious or even illegal nature, with pornographers, prostitutes and 'exotic dancers' helping to cope with sexual tensions that might otherwise threaten the respectable institution of marriage. A social and political ideology which treats most if not all social, political and cultural problems in contemporary societies as soluble by the application of managerial techniques and practices. The discussions of the occupational recruitment and socialisation, occupational careers and occupational identity, culture and ideology pay central attention to 'dirty' occupations.
