Alice Driver | Civil Eats

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Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains who is working on a book about labor rights titled The Life and Death of the American Worker. She writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Oxford American.

Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster

Injured divers work on various exercises in a small rehabilitation room at the hospital. Dr. Henzel Roberto Pérez, the deputy director of information management at the hospital, said that one of the many problems with the lobster diving industry is “Children are working for these companies. At least one of the companies is from the United States.” (Photo credit: Jacky Muniello)

Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.

An anonymous worker, 48, from Guatemala, has worked at the Tyson in Green Forest, Arkansas, for 20 years. She needs carpal tunnel surgery in both arms, and Tyson doctors have confirmed that she needs it. However, Tyson has told her the company will not cover the cost of the surgery. Her husband, also a Tyson worker, died of COVID in 2020. (Photo by Jacky Muniello for Civil Eats)