Stories by David Bacon
David Bacon is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
Posted on Aug 31, 2010, Source: New America Media
While there are differences in the experiences of people without papers and guest workers, some basic aspects of life are the same.
Posted on Jul 2, 2010, Source: TruthOut.org
Grassroots groups don't like the Democrats' proposals for comprehensive immigration reform.
Posted on Dec 16, 2009, Source: The Progressive
'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
Companies exploit undocumented workers, and then claim that sanctions require them to fire them when it's convenient.
Posted on Mar 28, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
On May Day, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US.
Posted on Dec 22, 2008, Source: New America Media
The successful union strategy relied on uniting a diverse workforce of African Americans, Puerto Ricans and immigrant Mexicans.
Posted on Dec 16, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Can direct action on the part of workers overturn American corporatism?
Posted on Nov 26, 2008, Source: The Nation
A new administration that has raised such high expectations should look for new ideas, not recycle the bad ones of the last few years.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
National political campaigns say less and less about immigration enforcement.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Something is clearly wrong with the priorities of immigration enforcement.
Posted on Sep 2, 2008, Source: New America Media
A major raid in Mississippi had a political agenda -- to undermine a growing coalition threatening the state's conservative establishment.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008, Source: deleted
Much of today's immigration from Mexico begins with heavily-subsidized U.S. corn.
Posted on Jan 3, 2007, Source: The American Prospect
Undocumented immigrants were recently arrested for securing jobs at meatpacking plants by using Social Security numbers that didn't belong to them. Their crime: paying for someone else's retirement.
Posted on Jul 8, 2005, Source: NACLA
On the Mexican border, old post-revolutionary legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decisions of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored.
Posted on Jun 15, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Young conservatives are trying to revive McCarthy-era witch-hunts on campuses.
Posted on Apr 28, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
An Iraqi union leader may be the biggest obstacle blocking U.S. efforts to privatize oil and other industries in Iraq.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Iraqi workers are fighting for their rights, which have been severely undermined by the policies of the coalition authority. Their biggest supporter: American labor unions.
Posted on Dec 10, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service
There's another kind of battle being waged in Iraq -- the fight for worker's rights. Many Iraqi union organizers are finding that the U.S. authority isn't much kinder to them than was Saddam.
Posted on Apr 9, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service
The link between war in Iraq and education at home is growing more apparent, especially in California. Protest against the war among young college-bound students is growing as resources for education at home shrink.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: Pacific News Service
Standards and testing are this year's buzzwords when it comes to education. But a major player in this game is rarely mentioned -- the cabal of three huge companies that dominate the test publishing industry.
