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

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(9/30/21) 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 his new book Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, journalist Eyal Press looks at the state of America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As he shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name. Join us for a look at the lives of the people doing society’s dirty work in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.