Grasping the concept of flying monkeys is vital for understanding the extent of a narcissist's control and manipulation.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

K-pop group Aespa released a single and music video for "Dirty Work" on Friday. The song is the group's first of 2025.