The Great Escape (A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America) - 9781643755755

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The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced laborā€”an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review).Ā ā€‹

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast ā€œman camps,ā€ surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Recruiters had promised them good jobs and green cards. The men had scraped up $20,000 each for this ā€œopportunityā€ to rebuild hurricane-wrecked oil rigs, leaving their families in impossible debt. During a series of clandestine meetings, Soni and the workers devised a bold plan. In The Great Escape, Soni traces the workersā€™ extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington, DC, and their twenty-three-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause. Along the way, ICE agents try to deport the men, company officials work to discredit them, and politicians avert their eyes. But none of this shakes the workersā€™ determination to win their dignity and keep their promises to their families.

Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of twenty-first-century forced labor, Soni takes us into the lives of the immigrant workers the United States increasingly relies on to rebuild after climate disasters. The Great Escape is the gripping story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American historyā€”and the workersā€™ heroic journey for justice.

This book title, The Great Escape (A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America), ISBN: 9781643755755, by Saket Soni, published by Algonquin Books (January 16, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Saket Soni
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Algonquin Books (January 16, 2024)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781643755755
ISBN-10:
1643755757
Weight:
9.92oz
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5.5" x 8.2" x 0.75"
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