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• Indispensable Outcasts

  Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930

  Higbie, Frank Tobias

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  Higbie dispels the myths associated with Progressive Era hobos, with a focus on their ties to the Industrial Workers of the World. It is, of course, everyone's dream to hop a train and leave polite society for a while...

• America Is in the Heart

  Bulosan, Carlos,

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  Bulosan's autobiographical novel traces the protagonist's journey from the Philippines to the factories and farms of the Pacific Northwest and California.

• Defiant Braceros

  How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

  Loza, Mireya,

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  The Bracero Program of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s was a pact between the United States and Mexico that allowed for Mexican citizens to temporarily work in the U.S. Loza's reporting is based on hundreds of oral histories.

• The Union of Their Dreams

  Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

  Pawel, Miriam, 1958-

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  A history of the United Farm Workers, the organization led by Cesar Chavez that fought for the rights of migrant workers. Pawel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, also wrote a well-regarded biography of Chavez. Barack Obama adapted the slogan "sí se puede"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All We Say

  the Battle for American Identity : a History in 15 Speeches

  Rhodes, Ben, 1977-

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  Dolores Huerta worked alongside Chavez in the UFW. This book contains her "You Cannot Pretend That We Do Not Exist" speech, delivered to the California General Assembly in 1966 ... kind of a perennial rallying cry, for many groups and for many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Precarious

  the Lives of Migrant Workers

  Di Cintio, Marcello, 1973-

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  Di Cintio examines the lives of workers participating in Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program. The workers, mostly from India, the Philippines, and Costa Rica, often found themselves trapped in a forced labor nightmare.

• Human Capital

  a History of Putting Refugees to Work

  Robson, Laura,

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  Written by a history professor who formerly taught at Penn State, ''Human Capital'' is about how refugee crises often lead to forced, unsettled, and exploited migrant labor.

• The Consequences

  Stories

  Muñoz, Manuel, 1972-

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  Written by Manuel Munoz, an O. Henry Award winner, the stories of ''The Consequences'' are set in the heart of California's Central Valley. Many are about workers who have returned to the United States again and again, determined to find jobs that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jimmy Breslin

  Essential Writings : Columns and Other Journalism 1960-2004 ; How the Good Guys Finally Won ; The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez

  Breslin, Jimmy,

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  Just chose it, but this LoA volume also contains ''The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez'', about the death in wet concrete of an immigrant laborer on a construction site in New York, with the blame placed on shoddy oversight and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hatemonger

  Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda

  Guerrero, Jean,

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  A speechwriter and advisor during Trump's first term and now a deputy chief of staff, Miller is the principal architect of the president's immigration and temporary worker policies. See also Maggie Haberman's ''Regime Change''.

• Heartbreak Soup

  the First Volume of 'Palomar' Stories From Love & Rockets

  Hernandez, Gilbert

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  ''Love & Rockets'' is a long-running comic from the Hernandez brothers. Gilbert's contributions often focus on the residents of Palomar, a village in Latin America. In later Palomar stories, Gilbert's characters migrate to the United States to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• La Bamba

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  The son of migrant workers from Mexico, Ritchie (Valenzuela) Valens was the first Chicano rock star. Quite possibly the greatest music biopic of all time.