Yesterday's Internment Camp - Today's Labor Camp

David Bacon @ Truthout - In Modoc County, farm workers do a job few people have ever seen. For eight hours, they lie on padded platforms on each side of an elaborate metal apparatus, suspended just inches above rows of strawberry plants. As a tractor slowly pulls them through the field, the workers pick off the flowers and budding fruit - not to harvest them - but to keep the plants from producing more.  Read more.