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100 1 $aThompson, Gabriel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006134965
245 10 $aWorking in the shadows :$ba year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won't do /$cGabriel Thompson.
260 $aNew York :$bNation Books,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axvii, 298 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tSalad Days (January-March) Yuma, Arizona -- $gPt. 2.$tSpeaking Quiche in the Heart of Dixie (June-August): Russellville, Alabama -- $gPt. 3.$tFlowers and Food (October-December): New York, New York.
520 1 $a"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 co-worker explained, "These jobs make you old quick." Back spasms occasionally kept Thompson in bed, where he suffered 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 U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of a few dollars an hour."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aImmigrants$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140055
650 0 $aForeign workers$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMinimum wage$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107824
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