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Working in the Shadows - A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Thompson writes for New York magazine, the Nation , the Brooklyn Rail , and In These Times . The author of There's No Joséere , he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Zusammenfassung What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis -- not always successfully -- as a bicycle delivery "boy" for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was nuts. As one coworker explained, "These jobs make you old quick." Back spasms occasionally keep Thompson in bed, where he suffers recurring nightmares involving iceberg lettuce and chicken carcasses. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement -- while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of 8 an hour.

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Authors Gabriel Thompson
Publisher Perseus Books Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 13 to 99
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 12.07.2011
 
EAN 9781568586380
ISBN 978-1-56858-638-0
No. of pages 336
Subjects Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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