The place was crowded with vendors and day laborers.

该地区聚集着许多商户和日工。

Dar said they can become day laborers, work in agriculture or become sand diggers.

达尔说，他们可以成为临时工，从事农业工作，或者成为挖沙工。

The kinds of people you've seen before who are coming to work as domestic servants, coming to work as day laborers.

这种人 你们以前都见过他们到城市里做佣人或小时工。

Day laborer Bernal's story demonstrates how wage theft happens.

日工 Bernal 的故事展示了工资盗窃是如何发生的。

I also heard it in Houston, when I was working on a project with day laborers.

我在休斯敦也听到过，当时我正在和临时工一起做一个项目。

In total, we interviewed 170 day laborers and conducted a follow-up survey of over 400.

我们总共采访了 170 名日工，并对 400 多人进行了后续调查。

Since 2015, my research has focused on immigrant day laborers' experiences with wage theft in Colorado.

自2015年以来，我的研究一直集中在科罗拉多州移民日工的工资盗窃经历上。

Victims of erosion lose their houses, agricultural land and jobs as farmers, fishermen and day laborers.

侵蚀的受害者失去了房屋、农田以及农民、渔民和日工的工作。

I began this project in the year 2000 by documenting a group of day laborers on Chicago's Northwest side.

我在 2000 年开始了这个项目，记录了芝加哥西北部的一群日工。

You may have seen day laborers at a worker center, outside a home improvement store or on a street corner.

您可能在工人中心、家装店外或街角见过临时工。

They pleaded for the scarce jobs, just as migrant day laborers do today at places like Lowe's and Home Depot.

他们恳求稀缺的工作，就像今天在 Lowe's 和 Home Depot 等地的外来临时工所做的那样。

That's a big ask for anyone and especially for vulnerable populations like day laborers.

这对任何人来说都是一个很大的要求，尤其是对日工等弱势群体而言。

Day laborers worry about spending days, weeks, months, even years, chasing unpaid wages, when they could just be out working the next job.

日工担心花费数天、数周、数月甚至数年的时间来追讨未付的工资，而此时他们可能只是出去从事下一份工作。

So one example is that as I was crossing into Gaza, I saw crowds of Palestinian day laborers walking through this usually heavily fortified Israeli border crossing, walking into Israel to work.

一个例子是，当我进入加沙时，我看到成群的巴勒斯坦临时工穿过这个通常戒备森严的以色列边境口岸，进入以色列工作。

That doesn't mean that day laborers do nothing to prevent wage theft or try to upgrade their working conditions.

这并不意味着日工不采取任何措施来防止工资被盗或试图改善他们的工作条件。

Because day laborers work informally and off the books, some employers, they claim to have never hired the worker at all.

因为临时工是非正式的，而且是在课外工作，所以一些雇主，他们声称根本没有雇用过该工人。

Rented farms were  repossessed, and many farmers were forced to give up their homesteads and move to California,   hoping to work as day laborers.

租来的农场被收回，许多农民被迫放弃家园，搬到加州，希望成为临时工。

Day laborers may just have a couple of minutes to negotiate their wages, hours and working conditions, all in competition with other workers and frequently with limited English proficiency.

日工可能只有几分钟的时间来协商他们的工资、工作时间和工作条件，所有这些都是在与其他工人竞争， 而且他们的英语水平通常有限。

Still, day laborers recognize that due to lack of work and employer's relative power over them, that there's no guarantee.

不过，日工认识到， 由于缺乏工作和雇主对他们的相对权力，无法保证。

When day laborers try to confront employers for their unpaid wages, they may stop answering the phone, change their numbers or even threaten the worker.

当日工试图就拖欠的工资与雇主对质时，他们可能会停止接听电话、更换电话号码， 甚至威胁工人。