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Show for March 28, 2010. Gabriel Thompson: Working in the Shadows
So you think your job sucks? Journalist Gabriel Thompson went undercover to learn about the grueling, low-wage work mostly done by immigrants in the US. He harvested lettuce in Arizona, toiled in a poultry processing plant in Alabama and did time at a (surprisingly nasty) flower shop in Manhattan. He describes his year of living strenuously.
Click here to read more about Gabriel and his book Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do
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