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. – Chris Hedges / Joe Sacco – Days of Destruction
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