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Naomi Klein
Rave The Progressive \"By the end, I wondered if maybe Klein had come closer than ever to cracking the code that reveals what, really, is at the heart of our collective dysfunction ... Throughout Doppelganger, Klein blends the personal and the political so seamlessly that it’s hard to imagine they could ever be apart. She writes about her autistic son, the historical underpinnings of Nazism, and the state of Israel, all through the lens of the duality at the heart of her book. She tells how some of the same Canadian truckers who took part in a 2021 convoy to express solidarity with that country’s Indigenous peoples following revelations about the mass graves of Native children also took part, eight months later, in a trucker blockade to protest an intolerable vaccination mandate. Klein’s invaluable message: It is by learning to see double that we can see straight.\
Eyal Press
Positive The Progressive Magazine Press, a good reporter and even better writer, introduces us to people who have worked these jobs, without the harsh judgment they have encountered elsewhere ... Workers like Juanita remain largely out of sight and out of mind, which enables their victimization. Press contrasts this with workers at Google who forced changes by raising a stink about the company’s collaborations with China and other bad actors interested in limiting individual freedom. These, he notes, were highly skilled workers not easily replaced. When they stood up for themselves, they won ... Press suggests that the public could bring similar pressure against the purveyors of dirty work by refusing to keep looking the other way. The \'tacit mandate\' he posits is \'important . . . but not set in stone. The attitudes and assumptions that it rests upon can change, and indeed have changed\'...One way to make this happen is by getting to know dirty workers as people. Dirty Work gives us a guided tour.