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  • Trabajo sucio

  • Los trabajos esenciales y los estragos de la desigualdad
  • By: Eyal Press
  • Narrated by: Javier Lacroix
  • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

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Trabajo sucio

By: Eyal Press
Narrated by: Javier Lacroix
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Publisher's Summary

Una denuncia innovadora y urgente desde la primera línea del "trabajo sucio", el trabajo que la sociedad considera esencial pero moralmente comprometido.

Pilotos de drones que llevan a cabo asesinatos selectivos. Inmigrantes indocumentados que trabajan en los mataderos industriales. Guardias que patrullan los pabellones de las prisiones más violentas y abusivas de Estados Unidos. En ‘Trabajo sucio’, Eyal Press ofrece una visión que cambia el paradigma del panorama moral de la América contemporánea a través de las historias de las personas que realizan los trabajos éticamente más problemáticos de la sociedad. Como muestra Press, cada vez estamos más protegidos y distanciados de una serie de actividades moralmente cuestionables que otras personas menos privilegiadas realizan en nuestro nombre.

La pandemia de COVID-19 ha atraído una atención sin precedentes sobre los trabajadores esenciales y sobre los riesgos para la salud y la seguridad a los que están expuestos los trabajadores de prisiones y mataderos. Pero ‘Trabajo Sucio’ examina un conjunto menos familiar de riesgos laborales: las dificultades psicológicas y emocionales como el estigma, la vergüenza, el TEPT y el daño moral. Estas cargas recaen desproporcionadamente sobre los trabajadores con bajos ingresos, los inmigrantes indocumentados, las mujeres y las personas racializadas.

A través de las conmovedoras y a veces desgarradoras historias de las personas que realizan el trabajo sucio de la sociedad, y examinando incisivamente las estructuras de poder y complicidad que conforman sus vidas, Press revela verdades fundamentales sobre las dimensiones morales del trabajo y los costes ocultos de la desigualdad en Estados Unidos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised.

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 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 essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examines a 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, sometimes 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.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2023 Eyal Press (P)2024 Random House Audio

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