Length58m
About this audiobook
For seven years, a farm labor contractor recruited workers from rural Mexico with the promise of legal seasonal work — then trapped them behind confiscated passports and a debt that grew no matter how hard they worked. On a 105-degree afternoon in a Florida pepper field, one worker's coworkers watched him collapse from heatstroke, and watched the people responsible for him spend forty-five critical minutes seeking permission instead of calling for help.
Sterling: The Debt That Never Ended traces a labor trafficking scheme hidden in plain sight within America's guest worker program — from its quiet recruitment offices in Chiapas to the federal human trafficking investigation that finally exposed it. A story about how far a debt can be stretched to keep someone silent, and what it took for one worker's courage, and one man's death, to finally break that silence.
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GenreTrue Crime
Length58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13Chapter Eleven: The Trial
2Prologue: The Debt That Never Ended
14Chapter Fifteen: What the Medical Examiner Established
3Chapter One: How the H-2A Program Is Supposed to Work
15Chapter Twelve: The Verdict
4Chapter Two: Recruitment in Chiapas
16Chapter Sixteen: What Kowalczyk Said
5Chapter Three: A Debt That Compounded
17Chapter Thirteen: The Ones Who Never Came Forward
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6Chapter Four: Efrain Morales
18Chapter Fourteen: What Changed for Guest Workers
7Chapter Five: Ninety Minutes
19Chapter Seventeen: A Story National Media Finally Told
8Chapter Six: Miguel Speaks
20Chapter Eighteen: Thirteen Places, One Distance Crossed
9Chapter Seven: The Legal Aid Attorney
21Chapter Nineteen: What Distance Cannot Erase
10Chapter Eight: What Federal Investigators Found
22Author's Note
11Chapter Nine: Charging Forced Labor
23Epilogue: What the Fields Remember
12Chapter Ten: The Raid
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