It's Time To End Worker Exploitation

Growing up in western Texas as the daughter of cotton sharecroppers, I spent my summers weeding cotton, five days a week, 10 hours a day, in 95-degree heat. As grueling as this workload was, others had it even worse.

For foreign workers toiling as "guest workers" (or "braceros") alongside us in the cotton fields, the five-day work week was an impossible luxury. They were often stiffed on wages, and health care was simply non-existent. Viewing them ... Full Story »

Posted by Dale Penn
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Subjects: U.S., Business, World
Topics: Immigration, Labor
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Posted by: Posted by Dale Penn - Jun 6, 2007 - 10:12 AM PDT
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Edited by: Dale Penn - Jun 6, 2007 - 10:14 AM PDT

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by Kaizar Campwala - Jun. 7, 2007

While shining a light on one important aspect of the immigration debate, this opinion piece seems to oversimplify the solution and no address the many other concerns in the immigration debate.

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