Los Trabajadores: The Workers
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
This public discussion, moderated by Joseph Tovares, of WGBH's La Plaza and Giovanna Negretti of Oste, Massachusetts' primary Latino political organization, wrestles with questions about immigrant workers in the US, after the screening of Los Trabajadores: The Workers. The new documentary film examines the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical history of both dependence upon, and abuse of, immigrant labor. According to a recent report from Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, immigrant participation in the labor force was critical to our nation's growth during the '90's boom. And while some maintain that the American economy needs immigrants and is more dependent on their labor than ever before, skeptics continue to ask, "Do immigrants rob American workers of jobs?"
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