I worked at an orange packing house one Christmas vacation in the early 70s. This was Polk County, FL. I was on what they called “set off” which was grabbing boxes of oranges off the belt and stacking them so they could be grabbed by the fork lift and moved into trailers or box cars.
It was hard work and I was talking to the guys who I worked with. I asked why they didn’t pick oranges. Was it harder work? The answer was no it was easier. Do you make less? No you make more picking.
Then why do you work here. All the people in the packing house were locals. Their only answer was “it is inside work”.
I think there was literally a dividing line. The locals did inside work and the migrants did outside labor.
Ain’t we something special?...?..??? We should have inside work.