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

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What is it cherish to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To determine, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who to start with thought he was once 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—now not all the time successfully—as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was once fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was once nuts.

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 enforcement—at 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.

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