Working in the Shadows : A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do - Gabriel Thompson

Working in the Shadows

A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do

By: Gabriel Thompson

Paperback | 1 July 2011

At a Glance

Paperback


$41.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.44 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 10 to 15 business days

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 coworker explained, “These jobs make you old quick.” Back spasms occasionally 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 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.

More in Migration, Immigration & Emigration

The Sunbird - Sara Haddad

Paperback

$19.99

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Global Settlement Dynamics : How People Inhabit the World - Yoann Doignon
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration - Daniel Makina
The Girl with Seven Names : Escape from North Korea - Hyeonseo Lee
Freedom, Only Freedom : The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani - Behrouz Boochani
The Forgotten Children - David Hill

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Migrants - Issa Watanabe

Hardcover

$26.99

Digital Migration - Koen Leurs

RRP $74.95

$29.95

60%
OFF
The Best We Could Do : An Illustrated Memoir - Thi Bui
Globalisation, Migration and Health : Challenges and Opportunities - Andre M. N. Renzaho
The Drone : The Gonzales & Vaslik Investigations - Adrian Magson

RRP $22.99

$9.25

60%
OFF