Abstract:
NC State University assistant professor of journalism Dick J. Reavis shares his story of working as a day laborer. The story comes from Chapter 2 of his book Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers. Reavis spent a day working a digger, digging up a tree and digging a trench with a homeless, blind, mentally challenged colleague. Reavis details the struggles for day laborers and the challenges to making a living doing this type of work .