The Harvest (2010 film)

The Harvest Spanish La Cosecha is a 2010 documentary film about agricultural child labor in America. The film depicts children as young asyears of age who work as many ashours a day, six months a year, subject to hazardous conditions heat exposure, pesticides, and dangerous work. The agriculture industry has been subject to significantly more lenient labor laws than any other occupation in the United States. As a result, lack of consistent schooling significantly limits their opportunities of succeeding in high school or more. The hazardous conditions threaten their health and lives. The purpose of the documentary is to bring awareness of the harsh working conditions which tens of thousands of children face in the fields of the United States each year and to enact the Childrens Act for Responsible Employment CARE Act, HR 3564 which will bring parity of labor conditions to field workers that are afforded to minors in other occupations.

Children who work on farms or in fields spend on averagehours a week, even during times of the year when school is in session. Of the children who work on farms, 50 of them will not graduate from high school. The United States Department of Labor estimates that children earn about 1,000 in one year.The Harvest is a feature documentary film on the life of migrant children and their families in the United States. It revisits Edward R. Murrows Harvest of Shame, filmed 53 years ago, and reveals that little has changed over the past five decades in the lives of migrant farm workers in the United States. The Harvest, however, is told from a childs perspective as it presents four of the more than 400,000 children between the ages ofandwho labor in fields and factories, lacking the protections offered by the Fair Labor Standards Act that all other American children enjoy. ........

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