“Uncle Sam’s colossal economy lives in a house haunted by miserable ghosts that will not be put down. Barely recognized, periodically forgotten, these ghosts form a labor force of some 2,000,000 men, women and children whose plight has been dignified with the clean sounding label: ‘migrant worker’… They get no unemployment insurance. They get no social security benefits. The law does not, in the main, protect them”.
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