Migrant Farm Worker Summary

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What I believe was the main objective of Seth Holmes was to find out how hard it really is to be a migrant farm worker. In the book Seth Holmes gives explicit detail on how hard it really is to be a migrant farm worker. An example on how I believe that he shows this is when he is talking to three different men Abelino, Crescencio, and Bernardo, every single one of them are asking Seth for some help medically. The reason why they did not get these conditions treated to begin with is because they do not have the time or the money to get it treated. Every single one of these conditions that these people had is because they are migrant farm workers. “Abelino had knee pain, because he was on his knees for long periods of time” (93). “Crescencio had headaches the reason why he got these headaches is because he was so stressed out to find work” (97). “Bernardo had stomach pain, the reason for these stomach pains is he works for long periods of time and he does not eat enough in that time, so his stomach becomes very pain full” (105). As you can see by this example you can tell that the migrant farmworkers are not treated fairly they would …show more content…
When he talks about that bottom two types of jobs you can see that the people who are actually doing the picking are not paid fairly, by how much work they are actually doing. The jobs are “the hourly field workers, these are the people who are paid per hour that they are working, which is like any other job, but how much work they are actually putting in they should be paid a whole lot more”(71), and “the field workers that are pain by weight these are the pickers that are at the bottom of the line, these ones I believe have the worst job, because they are not being paid for the long hours that they work, but they are being paid by the pound of produce at the end of the day”

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