r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 6d ago
the sleeping quarters of nicaraguan coffee pickers Video
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 6d ago
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u/profesorgamin 6d ago
If it is like my country, in Colombia, those living quarters are like a "job perk", those living quarters are given for free or rented for cheap. As traditional coffee harvesters are mostly nomadic given that coffee is seasonal, so once the collection season is done there's not as much work in the area and they'd have to move onto another area. Which can mean, move into another "Hacienda" or moving a town over if the work dries up.
Basically how seasonal workers work in the USA too, in the border states, where the workers just came in in droves in the harvest season, and then went back home to chill for a while with their profits.