Guest Worker Abuse ‘The Norm Rather Than The Exception’

Josh Eidelson has a great piece in Dissent exploring the widespread abuse of guest workers in the U.S. He focuses on the gripping story of workers at a shrimp processing plant in Louisiana where a manager frequently threatened to beat employees with a shovel and the owner said he’d “send armed men to assault their families.” REALLY FUN READING. Josh does such a good job of giving a voice to people who are systematically ignored. (“In interviews with Louisiana guest workers, I heard the word impotencia (powerlessness) again and again.”)

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