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New migrant work force struggles to survive

Number 13040
Subject Labor
Source Minneapolis Star-Tribune
State MI
Year 1995
Publication Date April 30, 1995
Summary The Star Tribune found that squalid housing is just one burden for the state's new wave of migrant workers. Miserable living conditions have led to tragedy for some workers. Since 1991, 13 Hispanic food-processing workers and their children have died in residential fires, most linked to unsafe housing.
Category General
Pages 41
Keywords Meryhew Rigert Carlson In the meat factories working poor Heartland Food Co. 41 pgs.
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