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Indigenous people from Oaxaca have been migrating within Mexico and to the U.S. for decades. Many were braceros during that program’s 22-year…
David Bacon
David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject and has held photographic exhibitions. He became interested in labor issues from an early age and he was involved in organizing efforts for the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Molders' Union and others.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/7/02) — A labor war is looming on the west coast docks, which could become the defining union conflict…
On May 26, Colombian voters elected the former mayor of Medellin, Alvaro Uribe, president. The candidate of the right, Urib president e…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (5/28/02) — On Sunday, Colombian voters elected President the former mayor of Medellin, Alvaro Uribe. The candidate of the…
David Bacon Torreon, Coahuila, is a dusty city in Mexico’s northeast desert. For decades, its workers labored in the Peñoles smelter and…
After the leader of their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paéz and his co-workers at…
David Bacon On April 6 this year, Perry Wacker, a Dutch truck driver, was found guilty in a British court for causing…
David Bacon From the introduction of the original Simpson-Mazzoli Bill in the mid-1970s, the key provisions of U.S. anti-immigrant legislation have been…
David Bacon I’m going to sing you a story, friends (Voy a cantar compañeros) that will make you cry, (algo que…
Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given…