 They can do, you know, what would be back-breaking work for about 14 hours a day. And if there was a rush, people had to work sometimes 24 hours a day to get some of this accomplished. This is Suyapa Portillo-Vieda. I am an associate professor of Chicana, Chicano, Latino, Latina, Transnational Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Beyond the long hours, a banana plantation was a really difficult place to work. It was then and it is now.