David Bacon is a
California writer and documentary photographer. He was a labor organizer among immigrant workers for two decades, and today documents the changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. Bacon belongs to The Newspaper Guild/CWA, was chair of the board of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights. His newest book is Illegal People – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008). Other books include The Children of NAFTA (
University of
California Press, 2004) and Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006). He is host of a weekly radio program on labor, migration and globalization on KPFA-FM.