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Dirty Work : Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality

Eyal Press
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Apollo)
Published: January 5, 2023
ISBN: 9781801107235
320 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£10.99

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.

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