1. Rubber in Brazil
The owner of the tract of land recruited his workers in Belem or Manaus, loaned them the funds with which to buy not only essential items of equipment but also tinned foods. ... These men, who have spent all their lives working in the forests doing the hardest and most trying kind of work, will now in three or four weeks spend several years' earnings, barely leaving them enough to buy a steerage ticket back to the woods. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate