Friday, October 15, 2010

Working in the shadows : a year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won't do - Gabrielle Thompson

I loved this book. How many people can gain an accurate view of jobs that are so menial and labor intensive that they are usually left for illegal workers? Not so many. Even Mike Rowe doesn't capture the same brutal working conditions or the types of jobs that this author went after. I will never look at salad or chicken the same again, and not in a gross way either. More like a wow, someone nearly broke their legs, back, or fingers so that didn't have to grow my own produce or chickens.

Verdict: Read it so that you get an understanding of how difficult these types of jobs are for illegals and even legal people who can't get much work elsewhere.

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