This documentary examines the lives of Jamaican migrant laborers recruited to cut sugar cane in Florida under the temporary H-2 guest worker program. Filmed in the cane fields and labor camps around Lake Okeechobee, the film documents the harsh working conditions and limited protections faced by the workers.
Directed by: Stephanie Black
Cast: a Florida Sugar Cane League official, and a dozen or so field workers. It also includes footage of C+, and US Senator Bill Bradley, Belinda Goffe, David King, Delroy Hunter, George Cesvette, Homer Heron, interviews with a United States Department of Labor official, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, Jervis Anderson, local merchants
Genres: Documentary, History