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That’s still a lot to unpack. Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation. For a comparison point
by hrktb 6y ago
That’s still a lot to unpack.
Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation.
For a comparison point, french wineyards use a flock of workers coming from everywhere around europe (including french students and unemployed) to harvest grapes for a few weeks and go back to whatever they were doing.
It doesn’t need to be some tangled mess of undocumented immigrants with no rights, no contracts etc., that part is more to me a reflection of US politics than anything.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoUS politics, and probably the history of farming in the country. Megascale farms with labour being a commodity have been the standard since before the country was founded.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAverage farm size, in America, is around 450 acres. Not even a square mile. Maybe 'megafarm' is an exaggeration.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoAverage farms in low and middle income countries are under 5 acres, in other rich countries they're around 75 [1]. Plantations are like nation-states - inefficient, but powerful enough to bankrupt smaller competitors in the same market. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X15002703#s0025 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...