Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation.
For a comparison point, french wineyards use a flock of workers coming from everywhere around europe (including french students and unemployed) to harvest grapes for a few weeks and go back to whatever they were doing.
It doesn’t need to be some tangled mess of undocumented immigrants with no rights, no contracts etc., that part is more to me a reflection of US politics than anything.
US politics, and probably the history of farming in the country. Megascale farms with labour being a commodity have been the standard since before the country was founded.
Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation.
For a comparison point, french wineyards use a flock of workers coming from everywhere around europe (including french students and unemployed) to harvest grapes for a few weeks and go back to whatever they were doing.
It doesn’t need to be some tangled mess of undocumented immigrants with no rights, no contracts etc., that part is more to me a reflection of US politics than anything.