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.
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime
Length58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue: The Debt That Never Ended
3Chapter One: How the H-2A Program Is Supposed to Work
4Chapter Two: Recruitment in Chiapas
5Chapter Three: A Debt That Compounded
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6Chapter Four: Efrain Morales
7Chapter Five: Ninety Minutes
8Chapter Six: Miguel Speaks
9Chapter Seven: The Legal Aid Attorney
10Chapter Eight: What Federal Investigators Found
11Chapter Nine: Charging Forced Labor
12Chapter Ten: The Raid
13Chapter Eleven: The Trial
14Chapter Fifteen: What the Medical Examiner Established
15Chapter Twelve: The Verdict
16Chapter Sixteen: What Kowalczyk Said
17Chapter Thirteen: The Ones Who Never Came Forward
18Chapter Fourteen: What Changed for Guest Workers
19Chapter Seventeen: A Story National Media Finally Told
20Chapter Eighteen: Thirteen Places, One Distance Crossed
21Chapter Nineteen: What Distance Cannot Erase
22Author's Note
23Epilogue: What the Fields Remember
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