Thursday, January 26, 2006

On The Corner: Day Labor in the United States

"They attend church, raise children and participate in community activities and institutions. Yet, when America's day laborers go to work, they have experiences that would shock any other upstanding community member: police harassment, violence at the hands of employers, withheld wages and conditions so dangerous that is not unusual for them to be sidelined for more than a month with work-related injuries or to work for weeks on end in pain."
Source: UCLA Social Sciences, Center for the Study of Urban Policy

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