Public Interest
Jun. 27, 2000
SWEAT EQUITY
Public Interest: By Marissa Navarro From 1988 to 1995 an apartment building in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte was home to one of the most abhorrent - and publicized - sweat shops in recent memory. There, 80 Thai immigrants labored in virtual slavery, forced to stay at their 18-hour-a-day jobs until they had repaid their passage to the United States, an impossibility on the $1 per hour each was paid.
There, 80 Thai immigrants labored in virtual slavery, forced to stay at their 18-hour-a-day jobs until they had repaid their passage to the United States, an im...
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