1: Making work a crime. Merry Christmas, you're fired ; How the housekeepers saw it ; Smithfield raids: overt union-busting -- 2: Why did we come? Flight from Oaxaca ; Battles in the mines -- 3: Displacement and migration. Forcing people into the migrant stream ; Sensenbrenner family business ; Migrant labor: an indispensable part of a global system ; Profitability of undocumented labor -- 4: Fast track to the past. Not enough workers! ; Modern-day braceros ; How corporations won the debate on immigration reform -- 5: Which side are you on? Paolo Freire on LA's mean streets ; Los Angeles: class war's Ground Zero ; Story of Ana Martinez ; Immigration enforcement becomes a weapon to stop unions ; Operation vanguard ; Immigrant workers ask labor: "which side are you on?" -- 6: Blacks plus immigrants plus unions equals power. Mississippi battleground ; Katrina: window on a nightmare ; Common ground of jobs and rights ; Remedy the past's injustice ; People in the streets want more -- 7: 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? -- 8: 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.

Reprint. Originally published: c2008.