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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
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Author:
Saket Soni
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
January 24, 2023
An exposé of our treatment of immigrants and the fallout from globalization, this story of 500 foreign workers from India lured here under false pretenses and entrapped in near slavery conditions is told by a labor leader who devised a plan that would ultimately win these men citizenship.
What The Reviewers Say
... a must-read for anyone organizing a union drive across cultural or racial lines, but even readers who have never thought about labor issues before will find themselves sucked into the drama.
The Great Escape illuminates the lives affected by human trafficking and the complexity of U.S. immigration bureaucracy..
... revelatory.
Harrowing.
