Dirty Work

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Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality

By Eyal Press

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Dirty Work explores the disturbing reality of labour considered essential yet morally compromised. It delves into the lives of prison guards, slaughterhouse workers, and drone operators—those whose difficult and often hidden roles sustain society but expose them to stigma, shame, and moral injury. The book highlights how these roles disproportionately affect immigrants and people of colour in deprived areas.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in politics, ethics, social justice, and current affairs, especially those who want to understand the complex moral landscape of modern labour.

A report from the front lines of 'dirty work' in the United States – labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.

A report from the front lines of 'dirty work' in the United States – labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.

Description

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work – labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.

A New Statesman Book of the Year

'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' — Michael J. Sandel

'A scathing and thoughtful book about labour and principles' — Rebecca Solnit

'A writer in the tradition of George Orwell and Martha Gellhorn' — Corey Robin

'Confronts a series of deep and vexing moral questions... penetrating, astutely observed, beautifully written' — Patrick Radden Keefe

Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons; undocumented immigrants who man the 'kill floors' of industrial slaughterhouses; drone operators who kill people from thousands of miles away.

These are the essential workers we prefer not to think about. Their morally dubious, often physically violent and dangerous activity sustains modern society yet is concealed from our gaze. It is work that falls disproportionately in deprived areas, on immigrants and people of colour, and entails a less familiar set of occupational hazards – stigma, shame and moral injury.

A striking, sophisticated and nuanced investigation, Dirty Work will change the way you think about society.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781801107228

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 January 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Apollo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Eyal Press Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Eyal Press is an author and journalist based in New York. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and the Nation, and his previous books include Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions. Press is a recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, and a Cullman Centre fellowship at the New York Public Library.