In the essay, The New Immigrant Sweatshops, author Jennifer Gordon discusses her findings on the state of labor in this era in relation to the “sweatshops” of many years ago. It talks about how many of the service-type jobs we see many immigrants doing these days, like construction or landscaping, relate to the sweatshops that workers unionized against years ago. This includes the same kinds of inequities in payments and treatment that lead Gordon to conclude that sweatshops may well be around again in the twenty-first century. Although there may not be the same solutions for managing sweatshops that were once used. Many of the sweatshops that existed in the early 20th century included things like the long-declining garment industry, meatpacking, farm labor, or domestic labor. Sweatshops in agricultural labor brought to attention by media outlets such as Edward R. Murrow's documentary Harvest of Shame have continued to exist today. The same goes for domestic work as immigrant women found that the two dollar wage paid for the work. As the garment and meatpacking industries have been revealed to the public and unionized, they also appear to have reemerged throughout the United States and in meatpacking plants in the West. As jobs in the United States have changed, so have the conditions in which we view sweatshop conditions. far beyond the old sweatshops. These conditions of low wages, long hours, and high-risk environments are now found in restaurant dishwashers, car washes, construction, landscaping, and many other jobs. There have been recent situations where Latino immigrants have been specifically recruited to work and held against their will, or forced to work up to 16 hours a day for four dollars an hour, much less than half the paper rate. .....pay for work and overtime. What makes tackling sweatshops so different is that enforcement is made difficult by clandestine companies that are always kept small and under the radar. This makes it difficult for government inspectors to locate or investigate companies before they move. To make matters worse, the government agencies charged with enforcing these labor laws through inspections are much less funded than they were in the 20th century. The new labor services common in this century where exploitative conditions are present are not always large companies, but small ones, often working across multiple parties and paying in cash. This makes it easier for companies to stay under the radar and avoid following labor laws. Problems with this, as well as a lack of government support, are the reasons for the problems we see now in eliminating sweatshops..