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Dirty Work
- Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's summary
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's 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 the issue of "essential workers" and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examines another, 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, at times 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 powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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Powerfully Provocative
- By Amazon Customer on 06-01-22
By: Nury Turkel
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Wages of Rebellion
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class - investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance.
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Excellent, important book
- By Eric L, Montreal on 09-06-15
By: Chris Hedges
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Putin Country
- A Journey into the Real Russia
- By: Anne Garrels
- Narrated by: Anne Garrels
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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In Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of the nation's heartland. We meet ostentatious mafiosos, upwardly mobile professionals, impassioned activists, scheming taxi drivers with dark secrets, and beleaguered steel workers. We discover surprising subcultures, like the LGBT residents of Chelyablinsk who bravely endure an upsurge in homophobia fueled by Putin's rhetoric of Russian "moral superiority" yet still nurture a vibrant if clandestine community of their own.
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Interesting dive into Russia today
- By Keith on 03-25-16
By: Anne Garrels
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Fight Like Hell
- The Untold History of American Labor
- By: Kim Kelly
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the heroes who propelled American labor’s relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law.
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It is an important historical cause. Well written, well performed.
- By Amazon Customer on 06-18-24
By: Kim Kelly
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The Violence Inside Us
- A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
- By: Chris Murphy
- Narrated by: Chris Murphy
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that prevent us from confronting our national crisis. In many ways, the United States sets the pace for other nations to follow. Yet on the most important human concern - the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from physical harm - America isn’t a leader.
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America needs more white men like Chris Murphy.
- By jnlv68 on 09-20-20
By: Chris Murphy
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Conditional Citizens
- On Belonging in America
- By: Laila Lalami
- Narrated by: Laila Lalami
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What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to US citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.
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Blew my mind!
- By Leila Jaafari on 10-20-20
By: Laila Lalami
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
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On a par with I'll Be Gone in the Dark, plus...
- By Grace O'Malley on 03-01-19
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State of War
- MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
- By: William Wheeler
- Narrated by: William Wheeler
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. Foreign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from LA, where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. State of War tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.
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Great insight!
- By jose flores on 05-19-23
By: William Wheeler
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Between Two Fires
- Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
- By: Joshua Yaffa
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces listeners to some of the country’s most remarkable figures - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks an individual path of compromise.
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Stimulating
- By Amazon Customer on 03-16-20
By: Joshua Yaffa
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Becoming Ms. Burton
- From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
- By: Susan Burton, Cari Lynn
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
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Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine then to crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a Black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over 15 years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction.
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Compelling
- By Jean on 06-18-17
By: Susan Burton, and others
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart
- Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End
- By: Dave Pell
- Narrated by: John Parsons, Peter Coyote, L. J. Ganser, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a time capsule; a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle - when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Who better to examine this unhinged period in all of its twists and turns than news addict Dave Pell, a.k.a. the internet’s managing editor?
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Couldn’t stop listening!!
- By Rofar4 on 11-16-21
By: Dave Pell
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- By: Michael Booth
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- By Anonymous User on 07-13-20
By: Michael Booth
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- DAVID MALIK
- 09-13-21
Well explained
This book is well researched and a worthwhile primer on the types of work which sustain the phenomenon of moral injury. In the sequel I would like to learn more with respect to the elimination of moral injury in authoritarian political regimes.
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- Smith's Rock
- 05-03-22
Sunlight is the best antiseptic.
With clarity based on excellent research, the author plays out in excellent purpose the many ways in which we hide the painful realities of "dirty work" from ourselves, dirty work being jobs that relate to employment that we think is necessary, but we'd rather not think about it. From the meatpacking industry to the soldiers using drones for targeted assassination, to big oil, the author unravels the many reasons why we tolerate duplicity and inhumanity in order to be able to look the other way.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-22
Hard to hit pause... morality on trial
Hard to hit pause. As a story teller, the delivery is compelling. Personal, but then expanded and connected with so many other jobs that are hard and morally taxing.
The financial crisis of 2008 and the after effects of the COVID crisis offer some deep inquiries into where we are going and where do the checks and balances come from.
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- KellyM
- 01-09-22
A Close Look at The People We Don’t Usually See
Press does a wonderful telling the stories of the people society tends to ignore. He gives them life and a presence that is not offered by most. His detailed look at the jobs and the historical explanation of story behind the modern state of this “dirty work” should make all of us question the type of society we live in and how so much of what we take for granted occurs only because of the sacrifice of so many of the workers humanized in this brilliant work. It will change your views on much that we take for granted economically and even politically.
Well paced and measured narration by Neil Shah also a big plus for sharing the stories included. Highly recommended !!!!
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- Nice guy
- 11-05-21
A Must Read for Conservatives
If this book does not change your heart, nothing will. I found the stories compelling and heart wrenching to say the least. The author does a nice job of telling us how we have placed some jobs at arms length so we do not have to suffer the indignity of thinking about the impact of the consequences of performing dirty jobs has on the workers. As a retired soldier I was particularly stunned by the chapter on drone pilots. The author also does a wonderful job of illustrating how class plays a role in our ability to opt out of or are forced to remain in "dirty work".
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-04-21
Insightful and necessary
At times very difficult to absorb, this is precisely why I forcefully recommend listening. These stories, and the structures that enable them, are wildly necessary to evaluate and understand.
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- David
- 01-20-22
Not Turning Away
Eyal Press identifies many jobs that are “dirty work”: unpleasant, low-paying, unappreciated positions that are harmful to workers’ health--both physical and mental. He focuses on the “moral injury” that results from these jobs. He interviews prison psychologists who feel forced to ignore beatings and sadism by some guards, drone operators who suffer from seeing close-ups of their hits on computer screens, meat packers who are not protected from Covid, and more. His outrage is deeply felt, but after a time it becomes frustrating. Press offers few practical solutions, and as job after job is presented, rightly, as a nightmare for decent workers, a certain hopelessness sets in. The narrator aggravates this, often reading in a sad, mournful voice. The book is sufficiently disturbing without that.
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- Wendy FitzHenry
- 02-26-23
Very deep and important to read
This book is so important for our society to read and brought new light to my undersrand of our world.
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- J
- 12-24-21
Good summary of social inequalities
If you aren't familiar with the various social inequalities that underline modern American life, this book provides a solid introduction. But, it stops short of offering alternatives or actions to be taken.
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- William H. Folk II
- 10-17-24
Agree and disagree
The assumption that there is a world hidden to most of us is spot on and the stories of how much of the world overlooks and pretty much ignores these careers was good. The issue I had related to trying to force guilt upon the reader...too over the top for me.
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