... or the productive farm where you would be making more than minimum wage. There is nothing to say that you will get paid more working in the "productive" fa

... or the productive farm where you would be making more than minimum wage. There is nothing to say that you will get paid more working in the "productive" farm, especially when "high productivity" is defined as "you doing more work for less money with the same tools". The farmer has all the data, he sets your pay, and he wants you to work for minimum wage. The trick used to boost the amount of work done was to reduce the influence that the workers had on their pay, not to increase their pay. Doing some quick calculations using the numbers in the paper linked to from the article, (and assuming that the farmer was successful in setting his pay structure so that those working the least were paid a minimum wage of £5/hr), those working the hardest worked harder (from 8.05 kg/hr to 12.16 kg/hr) but got paid less (from £22.45/hr to £12.28/hr). Assuming you don't care whether the farm goes out of business or not (you're only working there for one summer) which one would you like to work in again?