Tonight: Pratt Area Community Council presents Gabriel Thompson

We're excited to host a neighborhood institution this evening, and an author writing on a very important topic, and some complimentary food and wine -- join us!

Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 PM
Greenlight Bookstore and Pratt Area Community Council present Gabriel Thompson, author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do Reading and reception

What is it like doing the back-breaking work of low -wage immigrants? To find out, Brooklyn author Gabriel Thompson spent the year working alongside Latino immigrants. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant and was fired from a flower shop in Chelsea. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Working in the Shadows shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.

Not so long before he went undercover as part of the low-wage immigrant workforce, Brooklyn-based author Gabriel Thompson was the director of community organizing at Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) in Fort Greene. The Young Friends group of PACC is thrilled to co-host this book reading. Refreshments will be served.