Ex-braceros get 2 months to file claims for up to $3,500

A class action settlement for Mexicans who worked in the U.S. during WWII may affect 20,000 still living in this country.

The United States relied on Mexican laborers to bolster its workforce during World War II, but activists and lawyers claimed for years that many of those workers were never fully compensated.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/16/local/me-bracero16

(Posted by Kauna Lei)

On The Corner-Day Labor in the United States

The following is the link to the study "On the Corner-Day Labor in the United States":

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/csup/uploaded_files/Natl_DayLabor-On_the_Corner1.pdf

Posted by Chih-Lun Liang(Ashlee)

Day laborers march for rights

One day after Tuesday's Inauguration

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_11517485

Barack Obama's Interview: Immigration Reform

http://www.univision.com/content/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1804058

the shelter storm

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-daylabor10-2008aug10,0,5716725.story
posted by: Tiffany Lin

Here is a sample of David Bacon's work

This photograph is part of David Bacon's exhibit Living under the Trees which visually illustrates the lives of day laborers.