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Workers Don’t Have to Die in the Heat

On a blistering day in May 2008, seventeen-year-old farmworker María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez was tying grapevines in a vineyard outside Stockton, California, when the temperature crept past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was only her second day on the job. She was two months pregnant and, according to in.

She was two months pregnant and, according to in.

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