“What’s Wrong with the Way We Work?” and “America Runs on ‘Dirty Work’ and Moral Inequality.”

Write a compare and contrast of Jill Lepore’s “What’s Wrong with the Way We Work?” and Eyal Press’s “America Runs on ‘Dirty Work’ and Moral Inequality.” Write a unified essay that compares and contrasts what each writer is saying about paid work in contemporary society. What conclusions do the authors draw about who does what kind of work and how we, as a society, value work both in the present-day and in the past? What are the larger, moral implications about paid work raised in the two texts? How are the texts asking us to reconsider our own views of work?