{"id":36659,"date":"2014-03-16T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=36659"},"modified":"2014-03-16T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T15:13:31","slug":"article_29505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_29505\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Day ‘Harvest of Shame’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Related Articles and More Information, Please Visit OCA’s Fair Trade & Social Justice Page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Half a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came<\/a> to this pancake-flat town in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers for a television special called “Harvest of Shame<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Today, many of Cranbury’s potato fields have been built up with giant warehouses that form a distribution hub off Exit 8A<\/a> of the Jersey Turnpike.<\/p>\n

But amid this 21st century system of commerce, an old way of labor persists. Temporary workers make a daily migration on buses to this area, just as farmworkers did for every harvest in the 1960s. Temp workers today face many similar conditions in how they get hired, how they live and what they can afford to eat. Adjusted for inflation, many of today’s temp workers earn roughly the same amount as those farmworkers did 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

Across the country, farms full of migrant workers have been replaced with warehouses full of temp workers, as American consumers depend more on foreign products, online shopping and just-in-time delivery. It is a story that begins at the ports of Los Angeles and Newark, N.J., follows the railroads to Chicago and ends at your neighborhood box store, or your doorstep.<\/p>\n

The temp industry now employs 2.8 million workers – the highest number and highest proportion of the American workforce in history. As the economy continues to recover from the Great Recession, temp work has grown nine times faster than private-sector employment as a whole. Overall, nearly one-sixth of the total job growth since the recession ended has been in the temp sector.<\/p>\n

Many temps work for months or years packing and assembling products for some of the world’s largest companies, including Walmart, Amazon and Nestle. They make our frozen pizzas, cut our vegetables and sort the recycling from our trash. They unload clothing and toys made overseas and pack them to fill our store shelves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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