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Related Southern Spaces Links:
Baker, S Zebulon. "Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered."
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2006/baker/1a.htm

Odem, Mary. "Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta."
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2006/odem/1a.htm

Sanchez, George. "Latinos, the American South,and the Future of U.S. Race Relations."
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2007/sanchez/1a.htm

Smith, Barbara Ellen. "Rethinking Southern Communities."
http://www.southernspaces.org/sspmedia/1a-010-ss-04-glo_con.rm
Part of "The U. S. South in Global Contexts: A Symposium at the University of Mississippi."
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/global_context/1a.htm

Winders, Jamie. "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee."
http://www.southernspaces.org/sspmedia/1a-012-ss-04-glo_con.rm
Part of "The U. S. South in Global Contexts: A Symposium at the University of Mississippi."
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/global_context/1a.htm


Links:

Articles and Publications:
Alvarado, Pablo. "Day Music on Street Corners: Los Jornaleros del Norte."
http://www.nnirr.org/news/archived_netnews/losjornales.htm

American Immigration Law Foundation, Immigration Policy Focus 1:2 (September 2002)
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/ipf0902.asp

Atlanta Latino
Atlanta newspaper covering issues and events in Atlanta’s Latino community
http://www.atlantalatino.com/

David Bacon
Stories and photographs by photographer, journalist, and writer David Bacon
http://dbacon.igc.org/

Cook, Christoper D. "Streetcorner, Incorporated." (Mother Jones, March/April 2002).
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/03/street_inc.html

Cook, Christopher D. "Temps Demand a New Deal" (The Nation, 27 March 2000).
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000327/cook

Cuadros, Paul. "Hispanic Poultry Workers Live in New Southern Slums" (APF Reporter 20:1, 2001).
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2001/Cuadros/Cuadros.html

Fine, Janice. "Workers Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream." 14 December 2005.
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm?id=2221

Goldberger, Paul. "Atlanta Is Burning" (New York Times, 23 June 1996).
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE5D91539F930A
15755C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4

Greenhouse, Stephen . "Broad Survey of Day Laborers Finds High Level of Injuries and Pay Violations."(New York Times, 22 January 2006).
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/national/22labor.html

Jordan, Miriam. "Organizer Hopes That For Day Laborers, a New Day Is Coming Very Soon" (Wall Street Journal online, 14 July 2006).
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115283823883006458-
Bo7m7zQnYAOcDrOesOho6hu4X_Y_20070714.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

Kerr, Daniel and Chris Dole, "Challenging Exploitation and Abuse: A Study of the Day Labor Industry in Cleveland," 2001.
http://www.neoch.org/challengingtemp.htm

Loring, Ed. "I Hear Hope Banging at My Back Door: Writings from Hospitality," 2000.
http://www.opendoorcommunity.org/hope_banging.pdf

"More on the Arrested Day Laborers" (Athens World, 6 December 2005).
http://www.athensworld.com/2005/12/more-on-arrested-day-laborers.html

Moser, Bob. "Easy Prey: Domingo Lopez Vargas was an early casualty in the brutal Battle of 'Georgiafornia'" (Creative Loafing, 23 February 2005).
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A18438

Revkin, Mara. "Day Laborers Rally in Virginia" (The American Prospect, 7 August 2007).
Workers and their allies gathered to protest the impending closure of a day worker center that allowed them to safely seek employment, regardless of immigration status.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=day_laborers_rally_in_virginia

State Laws on Day Laborers (January 2006).
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/employ/daylabor.htm

Theodore, Nikolas. "A Fair Day's Pay?: Homeless Day Laborers in Chicago," (February 2000).
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/uicued/npublications/recent/ndaylabor.html

"First National Study of Day Laborers" (1 May 2006).
Urban Planning Research
http://planningresearch.blogspot.com/2006/05/first-national-study-of-day-laborers.html

Walter, Nicholas et al. "Social Context of Work Injuries of Undocumented Day Laborers in San Francisco" (University of California Postprints, 2002).
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5079&context=postprints

Audio Clips:
Ludden, Jennifer . "Cities Confront Clusters of Day Laborers" (6:50 min.) (NPR, "Morning Edition," 2 April 2007).
NPR story examining how local governments addresses issues raised by new populations of day laborers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9277359

---."Day-Labor Centers Spark Immigration Debate" (4:49 min.) (NPR, "Morning Edtion," 19 August 2005).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4806486

"Illegal Workers," (PBS, "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," 7 September 2001).
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec01/illegal_9-04.html

Telonidis, Taki. "Immigrant Songs Offer New Twist on Old Sounds," (13:29 min.)(NPR, 16 September 2007).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14415291

Films:
Beyond the Border
PBS's "Beyond the Border" (Más Allá de la Frontera) traces a Mexican family's transition as four sons move to Kentucky.
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/story.html

Farmingville
This film addresses the hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in a small Long Island town that made national headlines, and revealed a new front line in the border wars: suburbia. Includes first-hand stories from residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/farmingville/

Los Trabajadores = The Workers
This film looks at the lives of two men in Austin, Texas and a battle over the city's controversial day labor program, revealing problems with America's dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/theworkers/film.html

Organizations:
Casa De Maryland
CASA of Maryland was founded in response to the needs of the thousands of Central Americans arriving to the Washington, D.C. area.
http://www.casademaryland.org/

Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
CSUP facilitates academic research into the causes and consequences of urban poverty and the effectiveness of policies aimed at alleviating poverty.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/csup/index.php

Center for Urban Economic Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
Reports: "The Hidden Public Cost of Low-Wage Work in Illinois" and "National Day Labor Study: On The Corner: Day Labor in the United States"
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/uicued/

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
The mission of CHIRLA is to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in the Los Angeles area.
http://www.chirla.org/

The Equal Justice Center
A non-profit, non-partisan employment justice and civil rights organization.
http://www.equaljusticecenter.org/

Frontera NorteSur
FNS provides a source for border information through this online news service.
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/

Georgia Association of Elected Officials
GALEO was established to increase representation of Latino/Hispanic elected and appointed officials, as well as address the issues and needs of the Latino community, engage Georgia's Latino/Hispanic community in the democratic process.
http://www.galeo.org/

Interfaith Worker Justice
Interfaith Worker Justice is a network of people of faith that calls upon religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the U.S. religious community on issues and campaigns targeting the improvement of wages, benefits and conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
http://www.iwj.org/

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
MALDEF serves the Latino population in the Southeastern U.S. through a full-service regional office in Atlanta, Georgia that addresses needs for legal services and advocacy, ensures equitable education, fosters good relations between law enforcement and immigrant communities, and promotes fair employment.
http://www.maldef.org/about/offices.cfm?LocationID=10

National Day Labor Organizing Network
The mission of NDLON is to improve the lives of day laborers in the United States. NDLON and its member organizations foster safer and more humane environments for day laborers to seek employment and provide for their families.
http://www.ndlon.org/

National Employment Law Project
Advocate for the working poor and unemployed.
http://www.nelp.org/

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.
http://www.nnirr.org/

Open Door Community
The Open Door Community is a residential community in the Catholic Worker tradition that seeks to dismantle racism, sexism and heterosexism, abolish the death penalty, and to address the needs of homeless and imprisoned individuals.
http://www.opendoorcommunity.org/

Pew Hispanic Center
Chronicles Latinos' diverse experiences in a changing America.
http://pewhispanic.org/

Voces de la Frontera
Voces de la Frontera promotes grass roots leadership, educates workers about their employment rights, and organizes to protect and improve the quality of life for low-wage and immigrant workers.
http://www.vocesdelafrontera.net/

Workplace Project
The Workplace Project (Centro de Derechos Laborales) unites immigrant workers and their families for better working and living conditions through building community centers of and for immigrants.
http://www.workplaceprojectny.org/


Print Materials:
Bacon, David. Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration. Ithaca: ILR Press, 2006.

Barker, Kathleen and Kathleen Christensen. Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998.

Breslin, Jimmy. The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.

Easton, Terry. "Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Race, Immigration, and Transformations of Atlanta's Daily Work, Daily Pay." PhD diss.: Emory University, 2006.

Fine, Janice. Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream. Ithaca: ILR Press, 2006.

Fink, Leon. The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Feuerstein, Adam. "It's a Different World Once Inside a Labor Pool." Atlanta Business Chronicle, 26 February 1990.

---. "Labor Pools: Bane or Necessity?" Atlanta Business Chronicle, 26 February 1990.

Gordon, Jennifer. Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Murphy, Arthur D. et al. Latino Workers in the Contemporary South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Parker, Robert E. Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and its Workers. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Peacock, James L. et al. The American South in a Global World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Van Arsdale, David G. "Waiting for Work: A Study of Temporary Help Workers." Ph.D. diss.: Syracuse University, 2003.

Waldinger, Roger and Michael I. Lichter. How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.

Wilson, William Julius. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Wheeler, Houston. Organizing in the Other Atlanta: How the McDaniel-Glenn Leadership Organized to Embarrass and Lead Atlanta's Pharaohs to Produce Affordable Housing in Their Community. Atlanta: Southern Ministry Network, 1992.

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Published: 21 December 2007

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