Abstract
Nearly every morning, hundreds of immigrants from Latin America come to my affluent town in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to work. They build or clean million-dollar houses, cook and wash dishes at fast-food and fancy restaurants, care for the children of professional parents, pick up the garbage, mow the grass, and rake the leaves. Few, if any, belong to a union; many are burdened with a legal status that is uncertain at best. As I watch a man from Oaxaca hang drywall, or a woman from El Salvador push an infant in a pricey stroller, or a chef from Lima carve a pollo a la brasa, I occasionally muse about a short story by Jack London published in 1909. “The Dream of Debs” describes a general strike in a city which ends only when the workers win all their demands. What if, one day, the Latino workers in my town decided to do the same?
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