Blacks and Latinos Face Global South” Conditions in US

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

15 Jan 2019

Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-exploited, said Michael Yates, the labor educator and author. “Hispanic came from the Global South as immigrants” and “Black people came from the Global South as slaves whose very bodies were owned by capital,” said Yates. His latest book is titled Can Workers Change the World?

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