Documenting 9/11: Service Workers, Debris Cleaners, and New York's Reckoning with Immigrant Labor
Martha Guerrero, PhD Student in History, Yale University
The morning of September 11, 2001, hundreds of immigrant workers toiled away in the Financial District, most of them servicing Lower Manhattan office-goers, customers, and tourists across restaurants, delis, hotels, lobbies, and building maintenance units. This paper traces the largely anonymous deaths of these workers, as well as the broader role of immigrant labor in New York City, including the cleaning and clearing campaigns of the Ground Zero site
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