The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America is the stunning book about 500 Indian workers who were held in forced labor camps, then escaped, and the yearslong campaign for justice that followed. That labor fight, herculean in effort and impact, was engineered by the book’s author, Saket Soni, who joins UVA associate professor of history Sarah Milov onstage for a conversation and audience Q&A. 

Soni’s appearance at Democracy360 is in conjunction with the Karsh Institute’s Repair Lab private workshop “Dying for Work: Histories at the Intersection of Labor and Environmental Justice.”

Hosted and produced by the Karsh Institute’s Repair Lab