Description
As one coworker explained, These jobs make you old quick.” Back spasms from time to time 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 at the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcementat the same time as telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain within the pursuit of 8 an hour.