Dirty Work

Dirty Work

Author: Eyal Press

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0374714436

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A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. Drone 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.


Design Is a Job

Design Is a Job

Author: Mike Monteiro

Publisher: Book Apart

Published: 2022-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781952616266

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Take care of yourself as a working designer and use design as a tool for good.


Report of the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security

Report of the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security

Author: United States. Advisory Council on Social Security (1978-1979)

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Hoping to win the return of his two brothers, an Eskimo boy follows the directions of Eagle Mother and learns to dance, sing, and tell stories, so spreading joy throughout the world.