How Hurricane Katrina recovery workers became trapped in forced labor
Squalid work camps, 24-hour shifts, heavy surveillance, and withheld wages: these were the conditions that 500 Indian workers became trapped in after they were lured to the U.S. to repair oil rigs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In his new book, The Great Escape, labor organizer Saket Soni tells the story of the workers…