Maine’s blueberry rakers work very hard for not much pay
Tagged: MECha“An industry once dominated by local whites and Mi’kmaqs from the Canadian Maritimes seeking to supplement their income from non-farm jobs became dependent on migrant Mexicans and Hondurans, arriving in larger numbers since the early 1990s. This transition connected a remote part of Eastern Maine to what is referred to as the Eastern Stream of agricultural labor migration.
The modern history of Maine’s blueberry harvest perhaps began with the first efforts at mechanization in the 1970s. The industry’s slow and ongoing transition to harvester machines was made smoother by 15 years of labor from a few thousand Latinos, mostly Mexican, who annually journeyed here in order to work a month raking blueberries.”
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October 2nd, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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