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"Immigrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation whether they're legal or illegal. They often don't speak English and they come from countries where the wages are very low, so even if they are making less than minimum wage, they're making more than they would be at home," Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: The New Sweatshops? | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

But that office alone is unlikely to remedy the broader problem of underpaid, undervalued work in urban restaurants. "They are not isolated, short-lived cases of exploitation at the fringe of the city's economy," writes Bernhardt in the report. "Instead, the systematic violation of our country's core employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: The New Sweatshops? | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

In better times, Christos Kortzidis never skips a meal. Yet, for most of this month, the mild-mannered mayor of Hellenikon, a seaside suburb south of Athens, has sat squat in a rusting folding chair in his office, surviving on water and fruit juice. "Starvation," he says, "was my last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for the Beaches | 6/17/2007 | See Source »

The problem is that those dangers lurk in so many forms: incest, rape, pedophilia, molestation, exploitation, exhibitionism, assault, voyeurism-it's enough to make a parent's head spin. The American Psychiatric Association differentiates between pedophiles who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children and child molesters who abuse children for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Parent Trap | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

"The system is collapsing from within," is how Stan Eury, director of the North Carolina Growers Association, puts it. He had 10,000 workers in 2000 but only 6,400 this year. Employers complain about the spiraling costs of wages, transportation, government fees and housing. Activists worry about exploitation. Economists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Guest Worker Program Work? | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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