Includes bibliographical references.

Making work a crime: Merry Christmas, you're fired -- How the housekeepers saw it -- The Smithfield raids: overt union-busting -- Why did we come?: Flight from Oaxaca -- Battles in the mines -- Displacement and migration: Forcing people into the migrant stream -- The Sensebrenner family business -- Migrant labor: an indispensable part of a global system -- The profitability of undocumented labor -- Fast track to the past: Not enough workers! -- Modern-day braceros -- How corporations won the debate on immigration reform -- Which side are you on?: Paolo Freire on LA's mean streets -- Los Angeles: class war's Ground Zero -- The story of Ana Martinez -- Immigration enforcement becomes a weapon to stop unions -- Operation vanguard -- Immigrant workers ask labor: "Which side are you on?" -- Blacks + immigrants + unions = power: Mississippi battleground -- Katrina: window on a nightmare -- The common ground of jobs and rights -- Remedy the past's injustice -- People in the streets want more -- Illegal people or illegal work? -- Illegal means not European and not white -- Fighting second-class status -- Silicon Valley's high-tech sweatshops -- "What future for our children?" -- Whose New World Order?: High skills and low salaries -- From guest worker to German citizen -- Suppressing asylum seekers while promoting "managed migration" -- Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants -- Transnational communities: a new definition of citizenship.