Like Machines In The Fields: Workers Without Rights In American Agriculture
Author: Oxfam America Report
Date Published: 2004
In the United States nearly two million farmworkers, mainly immigrants, toil without rights, earn sub-living wages and exist in dehumanizing conditions. In the fields of Florida, California, North Carolina and other states, one million farmers earn less than $7,500 per year. To earn $50 a day a tomato farmworker must pick nearly two tons of tomatoes. The reason? The supply chain model of global economis has tightened profit margins. In 1990 growers received 41 percent of the retail prices of tomatores; by 2000 they were beceiving barely 25 percent. Value is passed up the chain while workers at the bottom pay the price.
Date Published: 2004
In the United States nearly two million farmworkers, mainly immigrants, toil without rights, earn sub-living wages and exist in dehumanizing conditions. In the fields of Florida, California, North Carolina and other states, one million farmers earn less than $7,500 per year. To earn $50 a day a tomato farmworker must pick nearly two tons of tomatoes. The reason? The supply chain model of global economis has tightened profit margins. In 1990 growers received 41 percent of the retail prices of tomatores; by 2000 they were beceiving barely 25 percent. Value is passed up the chain while workers at the bottom pay the price.
