Book Event: Working in the Shadows

Submitted by andrewr on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 6:47pm
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Date: 
Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location : 
DC

Busboys & Poets

2021 14th St. NW
202-387-7638

 

What is it like doing the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent the year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent.  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.