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Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t paid for their labor – people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, immigration fraud, and sleights of hand that allow forced labor to continue in the United States while the rest of us notice nothing but the everyday low price at the checkout counter.
Based on thorough and often dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, Nobodies takes you inside three illegal workplaces where employees are virtually or literally enslaved.
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The Nobodies takes the reader to the fields of Immokalee, Florida, where underpaid (and often unpaid) illegal immigrants pick the produce for companies such as PepsiCo and Tropicana. Then to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where The John Pickle Company partners with an Indian and Kuwaiti firm to import workers from India, who have their documents confiscated and are paid $3 an hour. Then to Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Western Pacific that is exempt from American immigration controls, tariffs, and federal income tax, where 17,000 imported factory workers churn out garments for giants such as Gap and Target with "Made in America" labels.
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