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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America - Hardcover
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Author: Press, Eyal
Publication Date: 08/17/2021
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"āthe work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the ākill floorsā of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United Statesā most violent and abusive prisons. InĀ Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform societyās most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButĀ Dirty WorkĀ examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color.
Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing societyās dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.
Author: Press, Eyal
Publication Date: 08/17/2021
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"āthe work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the ākill floorsā of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United Statesā most violent and abusive prisons. InĀ Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform societyās most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButĀ Dirty WorkĀ examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color.
Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing societyās dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Author: Press, Eyal
Publication Date: 08/17/2021
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"āthe work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the ākill floorsā of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United Statesā most violent and abusive prisons. InĀ Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform societyās most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButĀ Dirty WorkĀ examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color.
Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing societyās dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.
Author: Press, Eyal
Publication Date: 08/17/2021
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"āthe work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the ākill floorsā of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United Statesā most violent and abusive prisons. InĀ Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform societyās most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButĀ Dirty WorkĀ examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color.
Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing societyās dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America.
