Bowe, John

A collection of stories about love, based on interviews with such people as mail order brides, Amtrak conductors, high school students, polyamorous cosmopolitans, and octogenarian ranchers.

Reveals the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, legal loopholes, and immigration fraud that gives American employers forced labor and American consumers low prices on goods. Based on dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, the author goes behind the scenes of three illegal workplaces where employees are financially or physically enslaved.

A study of forced labor in the United States offers a look at the working conditions that the government and corporations ignore, decry, but ultimately need, analyzing the moral implications of the inexpensive goods to which the American consumer has become accustomed.

More than 120 people from diverse fields--from Wal-Mart greeter to supermodel--describe their jobs and how they feel about them.

More than 120 people from diverse fields--from Wal-Mart greeter to supermodel--describe their jobs and how they feel about them.