Mark Torres: "Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood"
From North Fork Works by Hazel Kahan, WPKN
October 9, 2025 · 30 min · Episode 8
About this episode
Mark A. Torres discusses the history and impact of migrant labor camps on Long Island.
Labor and employment attorney Mark A. Torres, tells the true and shameful story about the scores of Suffolk County migrant farm labor camps that housed hundreds of migrant workers on the North Fork and other of Long Island’s east end towns and villages between 1943 and 2000. The book chronicles the many aspects of this dark history including the human suffering of the camps’ inhabitants; the cause and effect of these camps; and the factors leading to their eventual decline. (WPKN, July 2021)
People in this episode
Guest: Mark A. Torres
Topics covered
- migrant labor camps
- Long Island
- human suffering
- employment law
- history
Keywords
- Suffolk County
- North Fork
- dark history
- human rights
Mentioned in this episode
Products: book about migrant labor camps
Places: Suffolk County, the North Fork, Long Island’s
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