A complex arrangement including maps, historical documents hidden beneath wooden floorboards, and an informational poster, the installation pointedly juxtaposes the situation of laborers in deindustrialized North Adams with their disenfranchised Mexican counterparts, revealing disconcerting similarities--including rampant violence against women and the encroaching presence of Wal-Mart.

For 35 years, you've systematically deindustrialized these cities.

But more recently, Puerto Ricans have arrived in large numbers at a time when many blue collar jobs have been lost, the city has become deindustrialized and is in serious economic decline (Hartford; Miller, 1999).