NY Reporter Cuts Lettuce for a Season in Arizona -- Hard Work

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This Arizona Republic article about the hard work of lettuce cutters, including Mexican citizens who work under the H-2A agricultural guestworker program, is by a reporter from Brooklyn who worked for a season as part of a series of jobs he held for book. "The job you won't do: Try working a season in the lettuce fields of Yuma," by Gabriel Thompson - Mar. 14, 2010, The Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2010/03/14/20100314thompson14.html

 

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