World Truth

By David Bacon, American Prospect August 9, 2017 Risking deportation, Washington state farmworkers protest dangerous conditions in the fields. A farmworker’s death in the broiling fields of Washingto…

Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest. David Bacon, American Prospect June 26, 2017 Bob's Burgers and Brew, a hamburger joint at the Cook Road freeway ex…

More excellent photographs from David Bacon (we used his work for the covers of both editions of our book). But the analysis is also important. Bacon shows that, at least in Washington state, growers…

Srinivas Kuchibhotla , murdered H-1B worker Trump opposes the use of guest workers “as cheap labor”—except for his own use of guest workers as cheap labor. This article is a good exposé of Trump’s hy…

The rise of a Trump enforcement wave spells the death of the liberal centrism that proposed trading increased enforcement and labor supply programs for a limited legalization of undocumented people. …

“When they bring in these foreign workers, they don’t believe they have rights,” says [attorney James] Otto. “Every employer who imports these foreign workers, what they want, what they demand, is su…

Last week, Clinton slammed Sanders for voting against reform in 2007. But there was a very good reason he did. By Daniel Denvir, Salon February 12, 2016 In last week’s battle over the meaning of the …

At a time when the U.S. and Mexico were promoting a guest-worker system for agricultural workers, "this was about frightening employers and the immigrants into getting with the program," [K…

The Toys “R” Us employees in New Jersey, many of whom had been at the company more than a decade, were laid off. By Julia Preston, New York Times September 29, 2015 WAYNE, N.J. — When Congress design…