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Dirty Work: Picador Paper

Autor Eyal Press
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 aug 2022

Suntem de părere că Dirty Work aduce o perspectivă necesară și adesea ignorată în studiile contemporane despre muncă, trecând dincolo de riscurile fizice pentru a investiga „leziunea morală”. În timp ce literatura existentă se concentrează frecvent pe condițiile materiale sau pe economia precarității, lucrarea lui Eyal Press explorează costul psihologic al activităților pe care societatea le consideră esențiale, dar pe care preferă să le ascundă sub preș. Notăm cu interes cum autorul nu se limitează la o analiză teoretică, ci oferă un raport de pe frontul unor meserii stigmatizate: de la piloții de drone care execută asasinate țintite, la imigranții din abatoarele industriale.

Considerăm că acest volum completează perspectiva oferită de Orange-Collar Labor de Michael Gibson-Light. Dacă lucrarea lui Gibson-Light se focalizează strict pe mecanismele muncii în sistemul penitenciar american, Dirty Work extinde cadrul analitic către întreaga structură de complicitate socială, explicând cum clasa privilegiată delegă dilemele etice către segmentele vulnerabile ale populației. De asemenea, spre deosebire de The Dark Side of Emotional Labour, care analizează efortul emoțional în organizații, Press pune accentul pe trauma morală profundă și pe stigmatul social care îi urmărește pe acești lucrători în afara programului.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera lui Eyal Press. Dacă în Beautiful Souls autorul analiza indivizii care au curajul să se opună normelor nedrepte, în Dirty Work el examinează cealaltă fațetă: experiența celor care, constrânși de necesitate economică, devin rotițele unui sistem moral compromis. Stilul este precis, bazat pe o documentare riguroasă, evitând senzaționalismul în favoarea unei analize lucide a inegalității americane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250849342
ISBN-10: 1250849349
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 202 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press
Colecția Picador Paper
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de sociologie și etică aplicată. Dirty Work oferă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care inegalitatea economică se traduce în inegalitate morală. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege costurile ascunse ale confortului modern și povara psihologică purtată de cei care fac „munca de jos” în locul nostru, oferind argumente solide pentru o reformă a demnității muncii.


Despre autor

Eyal Press este un scriitor și jurnalist de renume stabilit la New York, ale cărui contribuții apar frecvent în publicații prestigioase precum The New Yorker și The New York Times. Distins cu premiul James Aronson pentru jurnalism de justiție socială și beneficiar al unei burse Andrew Carnegie, Press s-a specializat în explorarea dilemelor morale și a structurilor de putere. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Absolute Convictions și Beautiful Souls, reflectă un interes constant pentru integritatea individuală în contexte sociale dificile, consolidându-i reputația de observator fin al peisajului etic contemporan.


Notă biografică

Eyal Press is an author and a journalist based in New York. The recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions.

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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, 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.

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A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.
A New Statesman Book of the Year
'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' Michael J. Sandel
'A scathing and thoughtful book about labor and principles' Rebecca Solnit
'A writer in the tradition of George Orwell and Martha Gellhorn' Corey Robin
'Confronts a series of deep and vexing moral questions... penetrating, astutely observed, beautifully written' Patrick Radden Keefe

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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In this richly reported, disquieting book, Eyal Press highlights the stigmatizing, morally injurious work we ask some of the least advantaged members of society to perform in our name. Prison guards, slaughterhouse workers, and drone operators who carry out high-tech killings perform society's 'dirty work' out of public view. This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work by revealing how we are all implicated in the dirty work we outsource to others
Makes no easy judgments, but instead confronts a series of deep and vexing moral questions, and exposes the bonds of complicity that make this not just someone else's story - but one which implicates us all. A masterful, important book
This is a scathing and thoughtful book about labor and principles - or, rather about when the former sabotages the latter, in the brutal industries that prop up American life... Though the moral injury impacts the workers first, it belongs to us all. Eyal Press brings this home in a series of powerful portraits of workers'
We want our conscience clean, and our budgets balanced. Enter Eyal Press, a writer in the tradition of George Orwell and Martha Gellhorn, who asks us to look at the dirty work that men and women do in our name
This deeply reported and eloquently argued account is a must-read
Essential reading for those interested in social justice issues
Readers will be intrigued by the in-depth tales of the world of dirty work
[A] disturbing and necessary new book... It's a testament to [Press's] insight and vision that in spite of the ugliness to which he exposes us on almost every page, he still makes us want to set aside cynicism and pessimism and join him in finding ways to strengthen the moral bonds between us, however flawed we might be'
A provocative book that will make readers more aware of terrible things done in their names
Dirty Work is about weighty moral questions, but it's also about people, profiling dozens of workers and empathetically engaging with their crises of conscience [...] A rigorously argued, compassionately framed moral appeal that for some readers might serve as a wake-up call
Extraordinary... As exposés go, this one reaches beyond standard journalistic fare'
A civilisation scrubbed to be shiny requires sweeping the moral filth under the rug, as Eyal Press shows, though brilliant reporting and exquisite writing
Press argues convincingly that economic inequality 'mirrors and reinforces' moral inequality. "The burden of dirtying one's hands - and the benefit of having a clean conscience - are increasingly functions of privilege"
Deeply and sensitively reported and often hard to read... One of the most powerful, and consequential, observations in this book is how our moral judgments, of ourselves and others, are unconsciously shaped by social power
This is a richly reported excavation of the American Dream's dark underbelly
Set to be one of 2022's standout works of non-fiction... Part sociological study, part muckraking exposé, Press - a reporter who has written for the New York Times and the New Yorker - examines those workers who, through political decisions and structural inequality, are forced to pick up the tab for society's 'dirty work'
Many readers may find Press's book merely reminds them of uncomfortable problems that have no easy solution. That is probably his point
In his latest, deeply reported book, Eyal Press focuses on the emotional toil of 'dirty work'
From prison staff to slaughterhouse workers and 'joystick warriors' who operate drones in war zones, an eye-opening new book has explored the world of 'dirty work'
Press is a clear-eyed, unflinching and well-informed narrator