RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

National Day Labor Organizing Network 
jornaleros@yahoo.com
213.353.1336

Centro Legal de la Raza  (Oakland, CA)
p.loya@centrolegal.org
510.437.1555

Street Level Volunteers  (Oakland, CA)
AHerring@streetlevelvolunteer.org
510.367.5892

RESEARCH LINKS

STUDIES:

• Working on the Margins (Dr. Abel Valenzuela)
• Day Laborers in Southern California (Dr. Abel Valenzuela)
• The César E. Chávez Center
• The Infrastructure of Day Laborers
• Organizing Immigrant Workers (Pomona Day Labor Center)
• Study: Criminalization of Homelessness in the US
• NAFTA: Its impact on workers in all three nations
• Estimating the Distribution of Undocumented Workers
• The Case for a Community Hiring Hall in Cleveland and Other Cities
• Immigrants Help Sustain Chicago's Economy

HISTORY:

• Hispanic & Latino History
• The Bracero Program
• Bracero Lawsuits
• Mexican American Voices
• The first migrant workers
• Mexican American Labor History

ARTICLES:

• Faces & Stories of US Immigrants
• 12/13 Oakland Day Laborers March and Rally
• Dying to Work
• Guest Workers' or Legal Slaves?
• Guest workers: a way to solve labor shortage?
• Day laborer centers pushed
• In the Straberry Fields
• Bringing Back Sweatshop Conditions
• Undocumented Workers' Health Jeopardized at Ground Zero
• Immigrant Stories (David Bacon)
• Building day labor centers comes with no easy answers
• Day Labor: Unionizing (Meg Lardner)
• Diary of a Day Laborer
• Public Choices Affecting Human Resource Management (Stats)

DOCUMENTS:

• Day Labor Fairness and Protection Act
• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
• The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
• Bracero Act of 1943

RESOURCES:

• Center for Immigration Studies
• Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
• Day Laborer Library Service
• Center for Labor Research & Education
• The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
• DayLabor.org
• Federal Benefits available to Undocumented Workers
• Back-Pay Issues for Undocumented Workers
• Congressional Testimony on Guest Worker Programs Cecilia Muņoz National Council of La Raza
• Congressional Testimony on Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act Cecilia Muņoz National Council of La Raza
• US-Mexico Migration Discussions Thomas J. Donahue US Chamber of Commerce

FRUITVALE:

• A Revitalized San Antonio/Fruitvale Community
• Misery Without Borders

DOCUMENTARIES:

• Los Trabajadores: A Documentary Film

FILM LINKS

• Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, CA)