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The Bunker

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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From drone pilots and prison guards, to the undocumented migrants who man industrial slaughterhouses, it takes an army of workers to carry out modern society’s most morally problematic jobs. But where are these hard-to-access workplaces, and who are the people toiling within it? Eyal Press, author of Dirty Work, joins Justin Quirk to discuss his meetings with prison guards from America and Abu Ghraib, why big tech won’t necessarily make the world a more equal place…and the awful conditions facing animals and workers in the food industry today. “The United States has the largest prison system in the world, but it's pretty much entirely hidden from view.” “The largest mental health services in the United States aren't hospitals, but prisons.” “We effectively still have a system where wealthy people can pay poorer people to fight their wars for them.” “It was easier for me to access prisons than industrial slaughterhouses.” “Technology alone doesn't clean this work or sort out social inequalities.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Justin Quirk. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production ENDS https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Eyal-Press/Dirty-Work--Essential-Jobs-and-the-Hidden-Toll-of-Inequality/26073447 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Bunker Daily. I'm Justin Quirk. The lives that
1:08.3	ordinary people live every day in America are made possible about armies of
1:11.9	workers who carry out the jobs that we don't like to think
1:14.3	about and we certainly don't want to see. From drone pilots and prison guards to the undocumented
1:19.8	migrants who man industrial slaughterhouses, these are the people who carry out society's most ethically troubling jobs.
1:26.0	Dirty work by Ale Press is a remarkable new book which travels deep into this world and reveals it in unflinching detail.
1:33.2	He joins me today in the bunker.
1:34.9	Welcome to the bunker ale.
1:36.6	Thank you so much.
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