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Books: Reading
Gabriel Thompson: Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
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Working in the Shadows
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Monday Feb 22, 2010 (7pm)
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"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... 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 U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour." (Nation Books)
