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Author Press, Eyal, author.

Title Dirty work : essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America / Eyal Press.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  331.7 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  331.7009 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  331.7009 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRESS, EYAL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  331.7 PRESS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  331.7009 PRESS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 303 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.
Summary "An urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"-the work that society considers essential but morally compromised"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- Behind the walls. Dual loyalties ; The other prisoners ; Civilized punishment -- Behind the scenes. Joystick warriors ; The other 1 percent -- On the kill floors. Shadow people ; "Essential workers" -- The metabolism of the modern world. Dirty energy ; Dirty tech -- Epilogue.
Summary 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. 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. He shows that we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color-- and are one of the hidden costs of inequality in America. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Equality -- United States.
Occupations -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Occupations. (OCoLC)fst01043384
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780374140182 (hardcover)
0374140189 (hardcover)
Standard No. 40030718832
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