While earlier chapters were fairly bleak tales, here with the story of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Hedges and Sacco sketch traces of hope grounded in the consensus-based organizing of the poor themselves through workers acting together without prominent leaders.įinally, this travelogue of pain ends with “days of revolt” in New York with the Occupy Movement. They make a fair case that it amounts to slavery as the fruit of corporate greed and globalization. Hedges and Sacco indict the large growers and the corporate retailers where many of us shop for our groceries for the physical, sexual and economic abuse of immigrant labor. Harvesting tomatoes and other crops by exploited immigrant labor is their focus. We move on to “days of slavery” as the authors recount the plight of immigrant labor in Immokalee, Florida. Hedges argues for workers rights and unions in the lives of society’s working vulnerable. As a native West Virginian, I thought back to my parents who lived through the Depression and to stories of one of my dad’s sisters striving to keep my father out of the coal mines holding out hope that he could live a better life by moving toward skilled factory work after service in WW II. Mountaintop removal and its literally sickening effects on poor people left without livelihoods or adequate services find unflinching portrayal in this chapter all the way down to the grit of rural drug abuse. The next trip moves to poor white Appalachia where “days of destruction” conveys the environmental and human carnage dealt by coal companies and compliant governments. OL24138394W Page_number_confidence 92.59 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220810200334 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 301 Scandate 20220809015420 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780307362995 Tts_version 5.– Chris Hedges / Joe Sacco – Days of Destruction Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:34:07 Associated-names Sacco, Joe Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40648006 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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