Social context of work injury among undocumented day laborers in San Francisco

Journal of General Internal Medicine
Nicholas WalterDean Schillinger

Abstract

To identify ways in which undocumented day laborers' social context affects their risk for occupational injury, and to characterize the ways in which these workers' social context influences their experience of disability. Qualitative study employing ethnographic techniques of participant-observation, supplemented by semistructured in-depth interviews. Street corners in San Francisco's Mission District, a homeless shelter, and a nonprofit day labor hiring hall. Thirty-eight Mexican and Central American male day laborers, 11 of whom had been injured. PRIMARY THEMES: Anxiety over the potential for work injury is omnipresent for day laborers. They work in dangerous settings, and a variety of factors such as lack of training, inadequate safety equipment, and economic pressures further increase their risk for work injury. The day laborers are isolated from family and community support, living in a local context of homelessness, competition, and violence. Injuries tend to have severe emotional, social, and economic ramifications. Day laborers frequently perceive injury as a personal failure that threatens their masculinity and their status as patriarch of the family. Their shame and disappointment at failing to fulfill culturally def...Continue Reading

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