From Night to Day

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Based upon a longitudinal case study of public building custodians, this article describes the work-setting transformations brought about by a mandatory change from the night to the day shift. The move from night to day both changed the organization of the custodians' work and created status-management dilemmas by forcing the workers into contact with the building's higher-status daytime occupants. Extending Goffman's relative stigma hypothesis, this article illustrates how time can alter social space, so that “clean work” done at one time becomes “dirty work” when done at another.

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