Activist Crisscrosses U.S. Doing 'Jobs Most Americans Won't Do'

Courtesy NPR: Arts & Culture  Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:00

President Obama recently announced plans to spend nearly $100 billion in 2011 solely on job creation. The proposed budget is aimed at reducing the nation's employment rate of 10 percent.

But in a new book, labor activist Gabriel Thompson explores the current job market and takes a look at some of the least-desired jobs that always seem available.

Host Michel Martin talks to Thompson about his time spent working undercover in the lettuce fields of Arizona, at an Alabama chicken...

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