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'Dirty Work' with Eyal Press (Season 1, Episode 40)
Podcast Episode | 50 min | News
Note: Some listeners may find the sensitive content discussed disturbing. Who is complicit in some of society's dirtiest work? If you grill a steak, someone somewhere had to butcher the cow under brutal working conditions. Our twenty year ...See moreNote: Some listeners may find the sensitive content discussed disturbing. Who is complicit in some of society's dirtiest work? If you grill a steak, someone somewhere had to butcher the cow under brutal working conditions. Our twenty year war on terror has been fought much the same way, with a relatively small group of our fellow Americans doing difficult, morally fraught work that allows huge majorities of Americans to live in blissful ignorance. In "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America," Eyal Press explores the nature of our implicit social contract around dirty work: Who does the work itself and what story does it allow society to tell about itself? See less
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Sep 28, 2021 (United States)
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