The Harvest Documentary Analysis

In the documentary, “The Harvest,” the migrant works are exposed to subjective meanings by the way they view their work environment in the farming fields of agriculture. Most of the migrant works shown in the film are depicted as interpreting their social status as poverty and the inability to escape the harsh and demanding work environments they find themselves in. This can be best scene in the video where the young migrant female child is picking apples hoping that maybe her relocation to family in Florida might better her chances of a better education. Many view their situation as helpless as the one father finds himself with the daily struggles of vehicular upkeep and the challenges of always having to move from field to field for work.

Also many workers in, “The Harvest” feel a sense that whatever they do will never be met with a sense of never being fully awarded a fair and honest wage for all of their labor. Somewhat feeling ripped off or used by the corporations they work for but know that failure to perform or to work will result in their starvation or even death. The subjective meanings they feel are strongly connected to the feeling of subjection as shown within the video. Subjective meanings also hold their value when the video also discusses the inability to provide care to their elders, parents, and other members of their travelling community of workers. The inability to provide consistent assurance of medical safety might as affect how they feel as described by the definition of subjective meanings.