Eyal Press Explores Hazards of Hidden Essential Jobs in ‘Dirty Work’

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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From the undocumented immigrants who work in industrial slaughterhouses to the guards charged with keeping order in the most notorious U.S. prisons: they're the hidden workers journalist Eyal Press writes about in his latest book, "Dirty Work." Press explores the psychic and emotional toll borne by poor people and people of color who are disproportionately trapped in jobs that the public at large sees as morally tainted, but essential to maintaining our prevailing social order. We'll talk with Press about what he uncovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.8	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, we get an update on the calder fire burning near the Lake Tahoe Basin. Then New Yorker journalist A.L. Press joins us to talk
1:08.0	about hidden workers who do the jobs most Americans want done, but don't want to think too much about.
1:13.9	From the undocumented immigrants who work in industrial slaughterhouses to the remote combat operators who carry out drone attacks,
1:21.2	press finds they bear a psychic and emotional toll from having to witness or even implement morally questionable asks. Press asks us to look
1:29.0	at our own role in creating the conditions that put workers in these positions in the first
1:34.4	place. Join us.
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1:47.4	Cal fire officials have ordered more evacuations near the Tahoe Basin, as the Calder Fire
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