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COMMENTARY: Identifying the Fundamental Key to Improving the Social Status of Waste Management Workers by Examining the History of Nursing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2008

Masafumi Tateda
Masafumi Tateda*
Affiliation:
College of Technology, Toyama Prefecture University, Toyama, Japan
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Address correspondence to: Masafumi Tateda, College of Technology, Toyama Prefecture University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan; (e-mail)[email protected]
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Abstract

This study is an attempt to find the fundamental key to improving the social status of waste management workers by examining the history of nurses. A strong prejudice and discrimination against waste management workers still exist in Japanese society. The social status of nurses also used to be extremely low, but has improved drastically. Nursing has become a profession that many parents would like their daughters to choose as a career. The drastic improvement resulted from a change in the mindset toward “patients.” Similarly, the status of waste management workers can be improved if people start thinking of waste in terms of resources. Improvement in the social status of waste management workers could be one of the powerful driving forces for making waste management a more interesting profession and respected field.

Environmental Practice 10:66–74 (2008)

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Environmental Practice , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 66 - 74
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Copyright © National Association of Environmental Professionals 2008

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