UK research says that waste management workers have moved from the hero to zero in the eyes of the public since the epidemic

New research says that dust and road fractures have moved from the hero to scratch in the eyes of the audience since the end of the roaming epidemic.

During Lockdowns, people applauded dust men who, as a service in the vital public sector, continued to work even in danger to their health. But when the country returned to normal, the dust men who were treated as lazy and incompetent were informed by the public.

Five researchers in the United Kingdom conducted an interview with 42 collectors of the Council, a roadbag, garbage forums, and graffiti remover in London and southeastern England in 2020, between the first and second locks, and again in 2021, after the country returned to normal.

The five are: Professor Natalia Slutskaya, Sussex University; Professor Anili game, East Anglia University; Dr. Rachel Morgan, University of Bronil; Dr. Isabella Dilabari, University of Berkebeck in London; Professor Tim Newton, Leicester University.

In an article published in sociologyThey write, “Unlike many other professions, those involved in waste management have been classified during the epidemic as essential workers and expect to continue to perform their jobs.”

The workers have told those looking for “their sense of general duty to avoid health risks of the accumulation of waste”, which was particularly important “in the event of an increase in the burdens of work due to the forms of the formerly invisible garbage, such as facial masks and plastic gloves, and increased waste from increased online and DIY shopping.

“The high size of garbage has intensified workers’ tables, extended roads, longer tours, and the work weeks for six days. However, the workers in our study constantly emphasized the importance of doing a good job, dismantling themselves on physical endurance and contributing their work in society.

“They confessed to the positive feelings that they raised from being at the recipient of recognition and respect, even when they felt self -awareness and among the heroes named.

He told one of the two groups to the researchers, “I felt embarrassed when they were applauding, as you waved at the back as if you were a superhero, you are a celebrity. I am just a regular bears, but it was good, the country shows their appreciation.” DustCart driver said: “We respected the streets. People were giving us respect as a group.”

But the researchers wrote that after the expiration of the locks, “our respondents told that their daily exchange with the audience returned to experiments” to treat like dirt again “or conceived lazy and less efficient.

“The epidemic did not result in a review of the arrangement of the situation that transmits those in waste management functions to the bottom of the hierarchical sequence of the situation, through negative cultural social features such as lazy, non -intelligent, or unprecedented, or lacking ambition, skills, capabilities, or abilities on any other tasks.”

One of DustCart drivers said, “In the epidemic they were applauding us, and now they treat you like dirt again, you will get ill, and they are threatened, and we had small, ridiculous notes in the boxes that threaten us, and called us the lazy pads, we have heard everything.”

Other comments made by the public included by the audience: “We pay your wages while you are sitting about smoking or something like that,” or “Removing garbage is the basic work, you should be grateful to you have a job.”

One of the concepts told the garbage the researchers, “The concept of everything is that, because you are working in the council, you are not working hard – they see the workers of the council as Shirkers. Once the stigma is related to a certain function, it is very difficult to clarify that stigma.”

One of them said: “I think that because the way the community is at the present time, if you have a job with money, you are an elite and people look at this. They look at people like road cleaners and think that you do not get anything – so we do not care.”

All the people who were interviewed, all the men who worked in their council for a period ranging from five and 40 years, complained that their employment conditions are getting worse. One of them said: “Employment now depends on zero hours, part-time work, a very low wage. People who say” You are lucky because you have a job-this is a mistake. “

“Nothing has changed since the epidemic. When I pay a rental price, it is basically near all my wages, so it ended immediately.”