This Book Introduces You To The People Doing Your 'Dirty Work'
NPR, August 18, 2021: This Book Introduces You To The People Doing Your 'Dirty Work'
“For his new book, Dirty Work, Eyal Press interviewed people working punishingly difficult jobs — slaughterhouse employees, correctional officers, oil rig workers, military drone operators. He writes that these workers often do jobs that many of us believe we benefit from — in the form of lower prices, safer streets or cheaper energy — but don't really want to think about.”
Additional reading:
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America on bookshop.org
The New York Times, August 17, 2021: The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
The Marshall Project, July 13, 2015: What Are Correction Officers So Afraid Of?
