| | Preface | p. v |
| | Making Work a Crime | p. 1 |
| | Merry Christmas. You're fired | p. 1 |
| | How the Housekeepers Saw It | p. 8 |
| | The Smithfield Raids: Overt Union-Busting | p. 12 |
| | Why Did We Come? | p. 23 |
| | Flight from Oaxaca | p. 23 |
| | Battles in the Mines | p. 33 |
| | Displacement and Migration | p. 51 |
| | Forcing People into the Migrant Stream | p. 51 |
| | The Sensenbrenner Family Business | p. 64 |
| | Migrant Labor: An Indispensable Part of a Global System | p. 70 |
| | The Profitability of Undocumented Labor | p. 77 |
| | Fast Track to the Past | p. 83 |
| | Not Enough Workers! | p. 83 |
| | Modern-day Braceros | p. 92 |
| | How Corporations Won the Debate on Immigration Reform | p. 105 |
| | Which Side Are You On? | p. 119 |
| | Paolo Freire on LA's Mean Streets | p. 119 |
| | Los Angeles: Class War's Ground Zero | p. 129 |
| | The Story of Ana Martinez | p. 136 |
| | Immigration Enforcement Becomes a Weapon to Stop Unions | p. 142 |
| | Operation Vanguard | p. 147 |
| | Immigrant Workers Ask Labor: "Which Side Are You On?" | p. 153 |
| | Blacks Plus Immigrants Plus Unions Equals Power | p. 167 |
| | Mississippi Battleground | p. 167 |
| | Katrina: Window on a Nightmare | p. 179 |
| | The Common Ground of Jobs and Rights | p. 183 |
| | Remedy the Past's Injustice | p. 189 |
| | People in the Streets Want More | p. 193 |
| | Illegal People or Illegal Work? | p. 199 |
| | Illegal Means Not European and Not White | p. 200 |
| | Fighting Second-Class Status | p. 209 |
| | Silicon Valley's High-Tech Sweatshops | p. 214 |
| | "What Future for Our Children?" | p. 222 |
| | Whose New World Order? | p. 233 |
| | High Skills and Low Salaries | p. 233 |
| | From Guest Worker to German Citizen | p. 238 |
| | Suppressing Asylum Seekers While Promoting "Managed Migration" | p. 243 |
| | Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants | p. 246 |
| | Transnational Communities: A New Definition of Citizenship | p. 250 |