United Nations (UN)
United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA)
University of Chicago
untouchables
UPS
USA Today
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chemical Safety Board
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS)
Valdes, Frank
Vargas, Tony
veterans; recognition of service of; retreat for; wives of
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam veterans; prisoners of war and; in rap groups
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Vietnam War; opposition to
virtuous consumption
“voice”
voting
Walker, Matthew
Wall Shadows (Tannenbaum)
Walmart
Warren, Wilson J.
warrior ethic
wars; drone warfare in, see drone program; “moral sheen” and; protests against; public disengagement from; see also military service
Washington, Booker T.
Washington Post, The
Way of the Knife, The (Mazzetti)
Weimar, Cheryl
Weinstein, Harvey
Weld, Theodore Dwight
Western, Bruce
West Point
Wexford
What Have We Done (Wood)
Whole Foods
Wilkerson, Lawrence
Williston Basin
“will to know, the”
Wood, David
World War II
Wright, Lawrence
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Yemen
Yeomans, Peter
Zuboff, Shoshana
Zucman, Gabriel
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
PART I: BEHIND THE WALLS
1. Dual Loyalties
2. The Other Prisoners
3. Civilized Punishment
PART II: BEHIND THE SCREENS
4. Joystick Warriors
5. The Other 1 Percent
PART III: ON THE KILL FLOORS
6. Shadow People
7. “Essential Workers”
PART IV: THE METABOLISM OF THE MODERN WORLD
8. Dirty Energy
9. Dirty Tech
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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* Not all COs belonged to the union, because Florida was a right-to-work state.
* WIC is a supplemental nutrition program for low-income women.
* Although the term “rural” is often associated with white regions such as Appalachia, Eason found that the southern towns where prisons are concentrated have a higher proportion of Black and Hispanic residents than the areas surrounding them.
* The age of the victims apparently did not trouble officials like Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who told prosecutors along the border, “We need to take away children.”
* In 2017 and 2018, Sanderson was the highest-paid CEO in Mississippi, earning more than ten million dollars.
* On August 3, 2019, an assailant entered a Walmart in the border town of El Paso and murdered twenty-three people, the deadliest attack on Latinos in U.S. history. Law enforcement agents believe that the shooter, Patrick Crusius, posted a white nationalist manifesto on the message board 8chan beforehand, decrying the “Hispanic invasion” of Texas.
* The measure combined oil and natural gas; in oil alone, America ranked third, behind Russia and Saudi Arabia.