During summer, when the harvest of fruits and vegetables is in full swing in California's Central Valley, temperatures hover in the triple digits. Heat exhaustion is one of the reasons farm labor consistently makes the Bureau of Labor Statistics' top ten list of the nation's most dangerous jobs.
Second, expect long days. Growers have a small window to pick fruit before it is overripe; work starts before dawn and goes on for 12 or more hours.
Replace all of those farm workers with unemployed black people and count the microseconds until the words "SLAVERY" and "EXPLOITATION" hit the headlines.
I guess it's not bad if you don't do it to the wrong group of people.
As I drove past miles and milies of farmland on the way to Woodland I saw numerous farm workers, mostly women.
I'll take one of those beer-tasting jobs. :)