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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.
In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated…
David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers…
David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City,…
David Bacon In the mile-high mountains of the Sonora desert, just 25 miles south of the border between Arizona and Mexico, over…
Liverpool was once the strongest union port in Britain, a country where all dockworkers were unionized for over 100 years. Under past…
When the polling began at the two big, state-of-the-art hospitals on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, over 1,000 workers…
When 70 workers walked out of a west Oakland recycling facility August 21, they simply wanted a raise. But the increasingly bitter…
The GM Strike By David Bacon Ending the strike of two auto parts plants near Detroit—a process which used to take just…
Sabrina Giles went to work seven years ago, keeping track of huge shipping containers moving in and out of the Burlington…