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The Case of the Killer Heat

A Matter of Degrees

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Work in a Piece Rate System

Naze: Farm workers can be waking up at 4.30 a.m. just to get ready for work. By the time they arrive at the fields and start picking, it's already 80 degrees with high humidity. Naze: Some of them were working 12 hours a day and they don't even want to take a break because they're working in a piece rate system. "It becomes really a competition even within a crew," she says.

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