Article: The Day Laborers and the New Times

Article: Day laborers, friend or foe: a survey of community ...
Fordham Urban Law Journal;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Communities throughout New York State, such ... communities. (5) Day laborers are typically at ... overwhelming majority of day laborers are men between the ... five. (16) In New York, however ... Europeans. (17) Day laborers usually emigrate ...

Article: Pay Abuses Common for Day Laborers, Study Finds
The Washington Post;  June 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... have many, many new arrivals," Valenzuela said. Day laborers here are more likely ... who are relatively new to the United States ... one-third of the day laborers said they had been ... and 45 percent in New York, Valenzuela ... Groups that work with day laborers said ...

Article: Advocating for Day Laborers; Abuse by Employers All ...
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... survey of Los Angeles day laborers, implemented in 1999, from which the New York Day Labor survey ... and Melndez's New York Day Labor research ... randomly surveyed 290 day laborers at 29 sites (out ... to college. In New York, unlike other ... there are women day ...

Article: Day Laborers Sue Chicago
In These Times;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ON DEC. 5, two day laborers, in conjunction with the workers ... corners in search of employment. "Day laborers have been suffering from police ... In the first lawsuit filed by day laborers against the city, the two workers ...

Article: Forgotten corners of the economy: as unemployment rises, the ...
The American Prospect;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... as the rest of the day laborers. Many are also undocumented ... themselves. The flood of new workers has worsened ... the wages that the day laborers had struggled to ... The arrival of new groups of increasingly ... Chicago expert on day laborers. He is a co-author ...

Article: AFL-CIO to Work With Day Laborers Group
AP Online;  August 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... lobby on behalf of day laborers," he said. Among ... are about 117,000 day laborers nationwide, and ... unions for the hope of new membership. "The ... it's a source of new members," said ... agreement comes as day laborers, a majority of whom ...

Article: Visita proposes to regulate hiring of day laborers
La Prensa San Diego;  June 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... greater need for the day laborers to have drinking water ... She added that the day laborers have developed their ... said, "This is not a new problem. It's been ... attendees. "We need day laborers. We do need this help ...