Suburban sweatshops. Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer lied about establishing a savings account for her.
In 1992, Fordham law professor
Jennifer Gordon founded the
Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. She has written a
book ,"Suburban Sweatshops", to describe
the experiences of these immigrants. More inside.
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