Rubber Workers' Cooperative
02 Shredding latex
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the island of Basilan, off the coast of Mindanao
A worker throws latex being processed into raw rubber into a shredding machine. The workers here took over the plantation on which they worked for five decades, for the Belgian Menzi Company. They now produce the finest-quality raw rubber in the world.
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