David Bacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 142970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacon |
| SIGNATURE | BACON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Migrant Clinicians Network |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2562-8537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dancing in Dark Times
David Bacon on indigenous dance as an act of resistance
The Second Demolition of Wood Street
David Bacon captures the eviction of an unhoused encampment, exposing the bones of capitalism
No Whitewashing the Past
Photo Essay
Vigan's Public Market
Research Article| May 01 2020 Vigan's Public Market: The Commons in the Hands of Farmers and the Poor David Bacon David Bacon David Bacon is a writer and photographer, former factory worker and union organizer. He documents workers, migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte (University of California Press, 2017), documents the lives of farmworkers in photographs and oral hi…
Courage in the Time of Covid-19
In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains
Photo Essay
In Mexico, a New Dawn for Independent Unions
In a speech to Mexican Congress during his December 1, 2018 inauguration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador charged that 36 years of neo- liberal economic reforms had lowered the purchasing pow
The Right to Migrate, The Right to Stay Home
Tijuana Police move in to suppress the strike at the Han Young maquiladora, where workers organized an independent union. (DAVID BACON)In the border city of San Diego, the factories loom like lords
Displaced People
Stories from the Borderlands
Twenty Years of Cross-Border Labor Solidarity
TIJUANA BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE, MEXICO - 1993 - Workers vote in a union election outside the Tijuana maquiladora of Plasticos Bajacal. Voting is public, and workers have to declare aloud whether the
A Resistance Dance
In Oaxaca, a forced migration is still channeled into the Dance of the Feather, some 500 years later
Young, at Work in the Fields
Other| March 01 2014 Young, at Work in the Fields David Bacon David Bacon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2014) 41 (5): 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2014.41.5.31 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Bacon; Yo…
Immigrant Labor, Immigrant Rights
The Story of Eulogio Solanoa
Keywords labor, working class, unorganized workers, trade unions, racism, radicalism, poverty, neoliberalism, immigrant workers, globalization
Getting Past the Icon
Research Article| May 01 2013 Getting Past the Icon: Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change it? David Bacon David Bacon DAVID BACON is a writer and photographer. Among his books is Communities Without Borders: Images and Stories from the World of Migration (2006). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 40 (6): 10–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.40.6.10 Views Icon Views Artic…
Land of the Open Shop
How the P'Urhépechas Came to Southern California's Coachella Valley
Equality and Rights for Immigrants—the Key to Organizing Unions
Organizing immigrant communities is not a matter of taking pity on the downtrodden. It is a matter of understanding what is necessary for the survival of our communities, of our labor movement. If we are serious in wanting to build political power, then we must incorporate migrant workers, fight for their rights, and make the movement for social justice one that belongs to all of us, documented and undocumented.This article can also be found at t…
Debating the Raids
A Radical Vision for Today's Labor Movement
During the Cold War, many of the people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again, and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of social vision has become very important. What is our vision in labor? What are the issues that we confront today that form a more radical vision for our era.This article can also be found at the…
Unions Must Move Left, They Have No Alternative
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 324 pages, $17.95, paper.Through the 1980s I was a union organizer and activist in our Bay Area labor anti-apartheid committee. As we picketed ships carrying South African cargo, and recruited city workers to support the African National Congress (then called a terrorist organization by both the United States and South Africa), I looked a…
Hotel Workers Get it Right
A Resistance Dance
In Oaxaca, a forced migration is still channeled into the Dance of the Feather, some 500 years later
Oil Rules Nigeria
Testing Nafta’S labor Side Agreement
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BaconDavid Bacon is an editor at Pacific News Service in San Francisco, and a freelance writer and photographer documenting issues of labor; immigration and international politics. He was a factory worker and a labor organizer for many years
World Labor Needs Independence and Solidarity
Within weeks of the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization (WTO), thousands of workers at India's state power company struck to prevent the privatization of electricity generation and distribution in Uttar Pradesh. Despite the jailing of hundreds of their leaders, they succeeded in halting it—at least for a time. Meanwhile, in ports along the subcontinent's coast, thousands more longshore workers also stopped work over privat…
Mexico
Stories from the Borderlands
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BaconDavid Bacon is a freelance writer and photographer; he writes regularly on labor and immigration issues. His latest book is The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California Press, 2004)
Labor Needs a Radical Vision
For forty years, AFL-CIO leaders George Meany and Lane Kirkland saw unorganized workers as a threat when they saw them at all. They drove left-wing activists out of unions and threw the message of solidarity on the scrapheap. Labor's dinosaurs treated unions as a business, representing members in exchange for dues, while ignoring the needs of workers as a whole. A decade ago new leaders were thrust into office in the AFL-CIO, a product of the cri…
Immigration Reform
YOU LISTEN TO PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, the only way Mexicans can avoid the deadly and illegal trip across the US border is to come as guest workers temporary contract laborers for US industry and agriculture. The 8-14 million immigrants already living in the US without visas, he says, must become guest workers themselves if they want to get legal documents. While the president's proposal is the most extreme of those before Congress (and has not yet…
The Political Economy of International Migration
In the Hotels, Si Se Puede
Illegal People
Displaced People
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BaconDavid Bacon is a senior fellow at the Oakland Institute, which provided support for this analysis. He is a writer and photojournalist, and former labor organizer. His most recent book is Illegal People — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)
Debating the Raids
A Radical Vision for Today's Labor Movement
During the Cold War, many of the people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again, and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of social vision has become very important. What is our vision in labor? What are the issues that we confront today that form a more radical vision for our era.This article can also be found at the…
Unions Must Move Left, They Have No Alternative
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 324 pages, $17.95, paper.Through the 1980s I was a union organizer and activist in our Bay Area labor anti-apartheid committee. As we picketed ships carrying South African cargo, and recruited city workers to support the African National Congress (then called a terrorist organization by both the United States and South Africa), I looked a…
Hotel Workers Get it Right
Equality and Rights for Immigrants—the Key to Organizing Unions
Organizing immigrant communities is not a matter of taking pity on the downtrodden. It is a matter of understanding what is necessary for the survival of our communities, of our labor movement. If we are serious in wanting to build political power, then we must incorporate migrant workers, fight for their rights, and make the movement for social justice one that belongs to all of us, documented and undocumented.This article can also be found at t…
Land of the Open Shop
How the P'Urhépechas Came to Southern California's Coachella Valley
Getting Past the Icon
Research Article| May 01 2013 Getting Past the Icon: Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change it? David Bacon David Bacon DAVID BACON is a writer and photographer. Among his books is Communities Without Borders: Images and Stories from the World of Migration (2006). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 40 (6): 10–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.40.6.10 Views Icon Views Artic…
Young, at Work in the Fields
Other| March 01 2014 Young, at Work in the Fields David Bacon David Bacon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2014) 41 (5): 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2014.41.5.31 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Bacon; Yo…
Immigrant Labor, Immigrant Rights
The Story of Eulogio Solanoa
Keywords labor, working class, unorganized workers, trade unions, racism, radicalism, poverty, neoliberalism, immigrant workers, globalization
A Resistance Dance
In Oaxaca, a forced migration is still channeled into the Dance of the Feather, some 500 years later
Twenty Years of Cross-Border Labor Solidarity
TIJUANA BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE, MEXICO - 1993 - Workers vote in a union election outside the Tijuana maquiladora of Plasticos Bajacal. Voting is public, and workers have to declare aloud whether the
The Right to Migrate, The Right to Stay Home
Tijuana Police move in to suppress the strike at the Han Young maquiladora, where workers organized an independent union. (DAVID BACON)In the border city of San Diego, the factories loom like lords
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