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Woman's Story - No More Children - Join Co-op - No Reading Class
You work long hours: cooking, washing, helping in the fields, and textile dyeing at the cooperative. Although your wages are small, your husband seems to be uncomfortable with your new earning power. He wants to make some money too. Instead of continuing to lease the land you farm, he would like to move and go to work at the foreign-owned plantation as a laborer.
You would still be close enough to get to the cooperative to make and sell your cloth, but as a family you would have no place to grow your own food. And you might never be able to find any land to lease again if you wanted to.
You and your husband discuss whether or not to give up the lease on this land and move to the plantation, where your husband would be a wage-earner.
If you decide to move to the plantation, continue your story here.
If you decide to remain on your leased land, continue your story here.