About 12.6m tonnes of refuse collected by councils in 2023-24 were incinerated in energy from waste plants, the highest ...

EP: When some people hear “dirty work,” Nation readers in particular, they’re going to think, “Oh, you mean Wall Street—the folks who cooked up all those fraudulent financial products ...

They do our dirty work and, as Press shows, they pay a price for it. Flor Martinez, a Texas poultry plant worker, devours painkillers at the end of her grueling shifts.

Holding up a wad of cash, Cristian smiles as he counts out £50 notes while a friend beams and waves a finger at the camera.

AI to help end a relationship, with women slightly more likely than men to let the bots do the dirty work, according to to a ...

Such jobs, says Eyal Press, author of “Dirty Work,” are often morally troubling, and the people who hold them the least advantaged. | Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images.

In “Dirty Work,” Press shows us many different forms of complicity with the business of harm. Most of the people who do our “dirty work,” he stresses, are marginalized and invisible ...

Press reveals the hidden importance of dirty work for the functioning of society as we know it and questions the averted gaze of the powerful to the work being done in their name. He begins by looking ...