Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

by Eyal Press

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374140189
• ISBN13: 9780374140182
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"