Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won’t Do
- ISBN13: 9781568584089
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product DescriptionWhat 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 . . . More >>
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won’t Do
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This was an incredibly interesting read. Well written and fast paced. I finished it in two sittings and wished it were longer. Eye opening stuff I maybe didn’t really want to know but nonetheless fascinating !
This guy can write !
Highly recommended !
Rating: 4 / 5
I found the first two sections in the book pretty interesting – when the author cut lettuce and worked in a poultry factory with immigrants. However, when he got to the restaurant industry the book totally loses focus and got boring. When I got to this section, I couldn’t remember (and neither could the author) what his experiment was all about. He starts to make all the cliche complaints without any real and in-depth analysis. He got close in the lettuce fields, but lost it for me here.
Rating: 2 / 5
First off full disclosure: I am a Mexican born 1986 Amnesty U. S. citizen.
Growing up in Los Angeles and the interest that was put on our education I could have easily fallen into one of these jobs. From the time I was 15 (I lied about my age) and went to work for a temp agency along side other Mexicans that were here illegal or legal and uneducated. They would send us to the worst jobs, for instance a dog food company that had all the same characteristics of the chicken plant the author described. The one difference was I threw up after each shift because the smell was so nauseating. It was actually this job that made me choose education over sweat.
Happy Chicken (this made me laugh) I applaud you for putting your money where your mouth is. Instead of just saying “Illegals” like the majority of America, you brought light that it is not just illegals that are being taken advantage of. It’s every person citizen or non citizen that walks through the doors of these companies that care only about their shareholders. Please don’t assume that I am anti Capitalism because I love profit as much as the next guy but not at the expense of workers, especially docking them for having to take their kids to the doctor or no sick days.
Read the book get a first hand insight to what really happens at these kinds of jobs.
Rating: 5 / 5