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Rape on the Night Shift
January 16, 2018
// 1h 48m
A joint investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women in the janitorial industry.
Rape in the Fields
June 25, 2013
// 53m
Lowell Bergman investigates the hidden reality of rape on the job for immigrant women working in America’s fields, farms and factories.
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