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Working America's Unwanted Jobs (Labor and Immigration, Immigration, Immigration to the US, Society)

Gabriel Thompson's book Working in the Shadows reveals what working like an immigrant in America is really like.

MSNBC
Change Immigrants and Labor Can Believe In (Labor and Immigration)

The Obama administration should embrace
progressive tactics to protect human and workplace rights.

David Bacon
Border Death Backstory (Labor and Immigration, Lawsuits, Society)

The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.

Debbie Nathan
Divided States (Labor and Immigration, Racism and Discrimination, Immigration, Immigration to the US, Society)

A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.

Peter Schrag
Immigrant Drivers License Plan Unravels (Labor and Immigration)

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer had a good idea about how to issue driver's licenses to undocumented workers. Too bad he caved.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger and Amy Traub
Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped (Labor and Immigration, Immigration, Immigration to the US, Society)

A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.

David Bacon
High-Tech Hysteria (Labor and Immigration)

Alarmist predictions of a talent shortage of high-tech workers are driving the race to the bottom.

Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Chandra
In Praise of Immigrant Students (Labor and Immigration, Higher Education, Society)

The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.

Ellen Chesler
Coming to America (Labor and Immigration, Racism and Discrimination, Labor Organizing and Activism, Social Justice, Society)

The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.

Felicia Mello
The Fight of Our Lives (Labor and Immigration)

Passing progressive immigration legislation this year is a moral imperative. History is in our hands.

Deepak Bhargava and Angelica Salas

Blogs

May Day in NYC: Youth and Immigrant Rights Activists Demand Reform
Allison Kilkenny

This year’s march was led by immigrant and youth activists pressing for long-awaited justice.

May 2, 2013
Immigrant Rights Groups, Labor, Occupy Plan May Day Protests
Allison Kilkenny

The upcoming protests have already attracted the attention of authorities—including the FBI.

April 29, 2013
How to Include Domestic Workers in Immigration Reform
Bryce Covert

Domestic workers could get left out of the fast track and even the slow track for citizenship, but there are ways to include them in reform.

February 12, 2013
Why Are Domestic Workers Ignored in Immigration Reform?
Bryce Covert

They perform backbreaking work for low pay just like agricultural workers. Where’s their fast track?

January 29, 2013
Give the Undocumented a Voice in the Election
StudentNation

STUDENT FINALIST: The harrowing irony of our current immigration system is that those who will be most affected by immigration policies can’t participate in the election process.

October 24, 2012
This Week in Poverty: 'Respect the Worker'
Greg Kaufmann

The latest on Palermo's factory workers in Milwaukee and SEIU janitors in Houston who are fighting for fair treatment and a decent wage.

August 3, 2012
May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?
Laura Flanders

May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?

May 3, 2012
The Trouble With Tomatoes: Slave Labor (and That Cardboard Taste)
The Notion

South Florida is a terrible place to grow tomatoes—or to work in the tomato fields.

July 27, 2011
More Than 100 US May Day Protests Planned, International Activists Arrested
The Notion

More than 100 May Day protests are planned in the U.S. today. Meanwhile, massive international protests have resulted in police arresting labor and solidarity activists.

May 1, 2011
Massive May Day Protests Planned to Campaign for Workers' Rights
The Notion

This weekend, labor and immigrant rights’ advocates will join forces to combat the anti-union legislation sweeping the country.

April 29, 2011