TIME Photo Essay: Shadow Workers: Three generations of workers are torn betweeen their roots and the promise of the north. Day laborers rush a potential employer at the 7-Eleven in Southampton. A recent UCLA study estimated that few day laborers manage to earn more than $15,000 a year . PHOTO BY SAMANTHA APPLETON / AURORA FOR TIME
SAMANTHA APPLETON / AURORA FOR TIME
Shadow Workers: Three generations of workers are torn betweeen their roots and the promise of the north
Poor Men
Day laborers rush a potential employer at the 7-Eleven in Southampton. A recent UCLA study estimated that few day laborers manage to earn more than $15,000 a year
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