Mark Torres: "Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood"

from North Fork Works · host Hazel Kahan, WPKN

Labor and employment attorney Mark A. Torres, tells the true and shameful story about the scores of Suffolk County migrant farm labor camps that housed hundreds of migrant workers on the North Fork and other of Long Island’s east end towns and villages between 1943 and 2000. The book chronicles the many aspects of this dark history including the human suffering of the camps’ inhabitants; the cause and effect of these camps; and the factors leading to their eventual decline. (WPKN, July 2021)

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