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Most Americans are shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet 145 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the CIA estimates that 14,500 to17,000 foreigners are “trafficked” annually into the United States, threatened with violence, and forced to work against their will. Modern people unanimously agree that slavery is abhorrent. How, then, can it be making a reappearance on American soil?
Award-winning journalist John Bowe examines how outsourcing, subcontracting, immigration fraud, and the relentless pursuit of “everyday low prices” have created an opportunity for modern slavery to regain a toehold in the American economy. Bowe uses thorough and often dangerous research, exclusive interviews, eyewitness accounts, and rigorous economic analysis to examine three illegal workplaces where employees are literally or virtually enslaved. From rural Florida to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan in the Western Pacific, he documents coercive and forced labor situations that benefit us all, as consumers and stockholders, fattening the profits of dozens of American food and clothing chains, including Wal-Mart, Kroger, McDonald’s, Burger King, PepsiCo, Del Monte, Gap, Target, JCPenney, J. Crew, Polo Ralph Lauren, and others.
In this eye-opening book, set against the everyday American landscape of shopping malls, outlet stores, and Happy Meals, Bowe reveals how humankind’s darker urges remain alive and well, lingering in the background of every transaction–and what we can do to overcome them.
Praise for Nobodies:
“Investigative, immersion reporting at its best . . . Bowe is a master storyteller whose work is finely tuned and fearless.”
–USA Today
“A brilliant and readable tour of the modern heart of darkness, Nobodies takes a long, hard look at what our democracy is becoming.”
–Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?
“Bowe dramatizes in gripping detail these stolen lives.”
–O: The Oprah Magazine
“The vividness of Bowe’s local stories might make you think twice before reaching for that cheap fruit or pair of discount socks.”
–Condé Nast Portfolio
NAMED ONE OF THE TWENTY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE VILLAGE VOICE
- Sales Rank: #777770 in Books
- Published on: 2008-08-12
- Released on: 2008-08-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .70" w x 5.20" l, .54 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this eye-opening look at the contemporary American scourge of labor abuse and outright slavery, journalist and author Bowe (Gig: Americans Talk About their Jobs) visits locations in Florida, Oklahoma and the U.S.-owned Pacific island of Saipan, where slavery cases have been brought to light as recently as 2006. There, he talks to affected workers, providing many moving and appalling first-hand accounts. In Immokalee, Florida, migrant Latino tomato and orange pickers are barely paid, kept in decrepit conditions and intimidated, violently, to keep quiet about it. A welding factory in Tulsa, Oklahoma imported workers from India who were forced to pay exorbitant "recruiting fees" and live in squalid barracks with tightly controlled access to the outside world. Considering the tiny island capital of Saipan, Bowe explores how its culture, isolation and American ties made it so favorable an environment for exploitative garment manufacturers and corrupt politicos; alongside the factories sprouted karaoke bars, strip joints and hotels where politicians were entertained by now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The detailed chapter gives readers a lasting image of the island, touted a "miracle of economic development," as a vulnerable, truly suffering community, where poverty rates have climbed as high as 35 percent. Bowe's deeply researched, well-written treatise on the very real problem of modern American slavery deserves the attention of anyone living, working and consuming in America.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
The very human impulse to get ahead in life even at the expense of others' suffering encourages and tolerates the slave labor that provides more products at lower prices, argues Bowe. Traveling from Florida to Saipan, Bowe chronicles the connection between American consumerism and modern global slave labor. Instead of chains, modern slavery uses coercion in the form of threats of deportation, beatings, harm to families back home, or even death. Bowe focuses on three cases: a labor contractor named El Diablo, who held Mexican illegals in involuntary servitude, working in Florida orange groves, while ruling with terror and murder; a Tulsa, Oklahoma, man, owner of a steel-cutting plant, who contracted with an Indian-born American to recruit Indian laborers, who were overworked, underpaid, housed in squalor, and threatened with deportation if they resisted; and the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan, which recruits foreign workers, who are abused and exploited while working in sweatshops for U.S. clothing manufacturers. Bowe concludes with a scathing look at the desire for creature comforts and the American notion of freedom. Bush, Vanessa
About the Author
John Bowe has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The American Prospect, National Public Radio’s This American Life, McSweeney’s, and others. He is the co-editor of Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, one of Harvard Business Review’s best books of 2000, and co-screenwriter of the film Basquiat. In 2004, he received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Sydney Hillman Award for journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good, and the Richard J. Margolis Award, dedicated to journalism that combines social concern and humor. He lives in Manhattan.
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52 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
EXCELLENTE READ
By Joseph H. Race
John Bowe does it again! In his former book GIG, he discussed various jobs, ranging from detective to technician to writer. In NOBODIES, he addresses the foreign workers at the bottom of the heap. The workers come from far-away countries such as India, China, the Philippines, etc., hoping for a better life. What they find is often quite different, starting with the illicit recruiters in their home countries, and then arriving on American soil to find that were lied to, and then being subjected to subhuman conditions, and for the females, some forced into prostitution. He discusses the Tom DeLay-Jack Abramoff scandals, and how their greed affected the lowly workers who came to the US with high expectations as did the immigrants in the past. What the workers found in Florida, Oklahoma and Saipan, were employers that paid them less than a minimum wage, had shadowy contracts and took money from them for substandard housing and lousy food, and the list goes on. John also notes that certain employers are living high just down the road from the shops, playing golf and taking expensive vacations, while their workers are suffering and need the basics such as health care and housing. What the American consumer needs to know that when s/he reaches for an orange juice or buys a high-end shirt, that some soul was working in un-American conditions on American soil to provide that product. In addition to the information about modern slave labor, the book is a smooth, thoroughly researched, and well written. As John indicates, there a "a dark side to the new global economy." Excellente, and a must read!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great insight into modern day labor issues
By Kirsten Koll
Great insight into modern day labor issues that you don't usually think about. Surprising that it happens in the U.S. Also a great reminder of our purchasing power as consumers and how we vote with the products we buy, and how the "power" of companies or individuals needs to be regulated or audited.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Anyone who reads The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman needs to read this book
By laura joakimson
In "Nobodies" John Bowe has written three thoughtful and fascinating essays, although obviously this book could have been longer. The neo-liberals who have been on-board for no holds free trade have not once taken time to address the possibly worsening plight of workers in the most vulnerable places in the world, and now some of this ugliness has taken hold within or own borders as well.
John Bowe takes the race to the bottom to the actual bottom....to the people who are most deeply abused. Only recently children were found working as slaves for up to 19 hours a day in India making clothing for Gaps for Kids according to a UK report, so we can't any more see slavery as an aberration. Not even within the U.S. and its territories.
In a July/August article, Atlantic Monthly correspondent James Fallows states that due to the "Nike effect" big corporations no longer like to have their logo attached to factories, so "vendors" within the U.S. and abroad are employed to extract cheap labor, and the corporations walk away with their reputation untarnished. For example, in Bowe's first essay, Tropicana Orange Juice doesn't "know" that several "vendors" have been smuggling Mexican workers across the border after charging them thousands of dollars "finder's fee" and then holding them at gunpoint in secluded areas of the Everglades...scary.
John Pickle in the second essay is one of the most fascinating portraits of a business man who doesn't have a clue of what he's done wrong...just lying to some Indian engineers and bringing them to the U.S. and not allowing them to leave his workshop where they are paid far less than U.S. minimum wage to work in a "training seminar." To the end Mr. Pickle remains oblivious to having done anything but good for "these people." disturbing.
I hope that policy makers will read this book as well as consumers. I don't think most of us want our clothing or our food to be cheaper because slaves made it...labor exploitation even to the point of slavery remains the ugly underbelly of economic development without human rights development around the world. If slavery is okay in India for the GAP for Kids, why shouldn't it be okay for Mr. Pickle in Oklahoma? In fact, the U.N. estimates that up to 20% of India's GNP comes from children ages 5-14....how many of these work for international conglomerates?
Mr. Bowe is right that we need to create global standards for workers, and U.S. corporations who inflate their profits by labor exploitation of children or of slaves in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world deserve to have their brand damaged.
This is a thought-provoking, courageous book and I recommend it to anyone who willing consider what is happening to the most vulnerable workers amidst the consumer and corporate giddiness of so-called free-trade and globalization.
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