foreign workers

"There is more to the history of the transcontinental than connecting the United States. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment"--Provided by publisher.

"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast 'man camps,' surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this 'opportunity' to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"--Provided by publisher.

Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.

Discusses prosperity and how American workers are treated in society.

"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mam? feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet"--Provided by publisher.

Contains first-hand accounts of trafficking among migrant workers in the United States.

Presents a number of personal stories of undocumented workers in the United States who are here for a variety of reasons including fleeing from persecution in their own countries or just trying to make a living.

Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia, where he moved to from India after earning his MBA, but was only able to get a minimum-wage job in an electronics store, confronting American mores and deeply entrenched racism in the process.

Contains a collection of articles that present varying perspectives on issues related to the topic of migrant workers.

Presents a number of personal stories of undocumented workers in the United States who are here for a variety of reasons including fleeing from persecution in their own countries or just trying to make a living.