Book : Dirty Work Essential Jobs And The Hidden Toll Of...

-Titulo Original : Dirty Work: Essential Jobs And The Hidden Toll Of Inequality In America

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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About the Author Eyal Press is an author and a journalist based in New York. The recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center, he is a contributor to TheNew Yorker, TheNew York Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions. A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work the work that society considers essential but morally compromisedDrone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s 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. But Dirty Work 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 society’s 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. Review [A] disturbing and necessary new book . . . In Presss moral worldview, there are not only guilt and innocence, but rather fine-grained degrees of culpability and exculpation that fit uneasily with the sensibilities of a sound-bite-driven social media culture . . . Its a testament to his insight and vision that in spite of the ugliness to which he exposes us on almost every page, he still makes us want to set aside cynicism and pessimism and join him in finding ways to strengthen the moral bonds between us, however flawed we might be. Tasmin Shaw, New York Times Book ReviewDirty Work makes a powerful case that, instead of vilifying dirty workers, Americans must reckon with what is being done in their name . . . Dirty Work is about weighty moral questions, but its also about people, profiling dozens of workers and empathetically engaging with their crises of conscience. While never absolving his interviewees, [Press] forces readers to ask themselves whether, under similar circumstances, they would have behaved any differently. Hank Stephenson, Shelf AwarenessEngrossing and frequently enraging . . . Press’s lucid narrative is studded with gut-wrenching scenes . . . This deeply reported and eloquently argued account is a must-read. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Essential reading. Caren Nichter, Library Journal (starred review)Probing . . . A provocative book that will make readers more aware of terrible things done in their names. Kirkus[Press] compelling book is smart and sophisticated. As exposes go, this one reaches beyond standard journalistic fare . . . It isnt rose-colored glasses that prevent a clear vision of what really goes on; its gold-rimmed glasses and lenses made of meritocratic hubris that blinds the privileged classes from seeing the mudsills in our midst. Nancy Isenberg, The American ScholarPress’s cases are diverse and compelling . . . [his] concept of dirt is gender-blind and therefore, in theory, defines moral injury as a locus for worker solidarity, because it is experience