The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

Soni, Saket

ISBN 10: 1643750089 / ISBN 13: 9781643750088

Editore: Algonquin Books, 2023

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1643750089I4N00

Riassunto:

An eye-opening, emotional page-turner that exposes our treatment of immigrants and the fallout from globalization, this astonishing story of 500 foreign workers from India lured here under false pretenses and entrapped in near slavery conditions is told by a visionary labor leader who devised a plan that would ultimately win these men citizenship.

Informazioni sugli autori: Saket Soni is labor organizer and the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. He is the founder and director of Resilience Force, a national nonprofit that advocates for the rising workforce that rebuilds after climate disasters. He was profiled as an "architect of the next labor movement" in USA Today and named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business for 2022. His work was the subject of a major New Yorker feature story  He has testified before Congress and at the United Nations. Originally from New Delhi, Saket lives in Washington, DC. Follow him on Twitter @saket_soni
 

Saket Soni is the founder and director of Resilience Force, a national nonprofit that advocates for the rising workforce that rebuilds after climate disasters. He was profiled as an “architect of the next labor movement” in USA Today, and his work was the subject of a November 2021 New Yorker feature story (in the magazine and the New Yorker Radio Hour), in which the author called him "truly one of the most interesting people I have ever met in my life." He has testified before Congress on issues of immigration and labor rights. Originally from New Delhi, Soni lives in Washington, DC.

 

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced ...
Casa editrice: Algonquin Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket