Tag: filth

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation
A crisis always reveals. While pandemic society has effortlessly withstood the temporary absence of hedge fund managers, cleaners have been billeted to the frontlines, their work suddenly and mysteriously ‘essential’. In part four of her series, Filth, Eleanor Penny explores how labelling work 'low-skilled' rubber-stamps a vicious cycle of low pay, precarious contracts and hyper-exploitation. 
Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.

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