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Work and jobs

Both Issei and Nisei took jobs within the camps, at wages set not to exceed soldiers' pay: $12 per month for unskilled labor, $16 for skilled labor, and $19 for professional employees. WRA staff was paid much more for the same jobs. Though public opinion mandated such low pay, dissatisfied Japanese Americans objected to losing their right to make a decent living. They had to use their sparse income for necessities, such as warm clothing and shoes.

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Building site with large wooden structure, men standing on framing (ddr-densho-329-1386)
img Building site with large wooden structure, men standing on framing (ddr-densho-329-1386)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-1386/
Group of men next to truck (ddr-densho-329-1381)
img Group of men next to truck (ddr-densho-329-1381)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-1381/
Notice to report to work for Kaneji Domoto (ddr-densho-329-982)
doc Notice to report to work for Kaneji Domoto (ddr-densho-329-982)
To work as Draftsman (Supervising) at Granada (Amache) Relocation Center
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-982/
Five Men, Building Site with Bricks outside barracks (ddr-densho-329-1366)
img Five Men, Building Site with Bricks outside barracks (ddr-densho-329-1366)
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Group of men with surveying equipment (ddr-densho-329-1377)
img Group of men with surveying equipment (ddr-densho-329-1377)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-1377/
Notice to report to work for Kaneji Domoto (ddr-densho-329-981)
doc Notice to report to work for Kaneji Domoto (ddr-densho-329-981)
To work as Draftsman at Granada (Amache) Relocation Center
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-981/
Plumbing repairs in boiler house (ddr-densho-37-2159)
img Plumbing repairs in boiler house (ddr-densho-37-2159)
Written on back: Plumbing repairs in Boiler House.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-2159/
Japanese Americans clearing sagebrush (ddr-densho-37-703)
img Japanese Americans clearing sagebrush (ddr-densho-37-703)
Original WRA caption: A farm rake pulled by a Fordon-Ferguson tractor gathers up sagebrush previously bladed off by a road patrol.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-703/
Five men building with bricks with barracks in background (ddr-densho-329-1374)
img Five men building with bricks with barracks in background (ddr-densho-329-1374)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-1374/
Camp street construction (ddr-densho-37-410)
img Camp street construction (ddr-densho-37-410)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar, California. A street is being constructed at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-410/
Japanese American clearing land (ddr-densho-37-706)
img Japanese American clearing land (ddr-densho-37-706)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee drives a heavy tractor pulling a triangle of heavy railroad irons breaking off sagebrush. This is one of the methods of clearing off land of the sagebrush adjacent to the Minidoka Relocation Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-706/
Ship model shop painting department (ddr-densho-37-1261)
img Ship model shop painting department (ddr-densho-37-1261)
Included annotation: A-303, Ship Model Shop, Painting Dept..
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1261/
Large group outside a ship model shop (ddr-densho-37-1262)
img Large group outside a ship model shop (ddr-densho-37-1262)
Included annotation: A-304, Ship Model Shop, Workers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1262/
Camp beauty shop (ddr-densho-37-16)
img Camp beauty shop (ddr-densho-37-16)
Original WRA caption: High school girls working part time in [the] beauty shop, which is operated by the Minidoka Consumers Cooperative.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-16/
Japanese American harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-606)
img Japanese American harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-606)
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Momayo Yamamoto in the spinach harvesting field at this relocation center.
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Watch repair shop (ddr-densho-37-144)
img Watch repair shop (ddr-densho-37-144)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-144/
Raising cucumbers (ddr-densho-37-161)
img Raising cucumbers (ddr-densho-37-161)
Chemicals were used to grow the cucumbers shown here.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-161/
Japanese Americans feeding cows (ddr-densho-37-604)
img Japanese Americans feeding cows (ddr-densho-37-604)
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. M. Fujita is pictured feeding the cows at the dairy farm school. He works days on the hog farm, and spends his evenings at the school to learn milking and the care of the cows. Prior to evacuation, he was a builder of fishing boats at San …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-604/
Dietitian aids (ddr-densho-37-1211)
img Dietitian aids (ddr-densho-37-1211)
Included annotation: P-203, Dietician [sic] Aides.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1211/
Volunteer cotton pickers (ddr-densho-37-947)
img Volunteer cotton pickers (ddr-densho-37-947)
Included annotation: R-6, Volunteer Cotton pickers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-947/
Camp lumber yard (ddr-densho-37-615)
img Camp lumber yard (ddr-densho-37-615)
Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The Jerome Center lumber yard. Much of this lumber was cut at the center's sawmill which the evacuees operated. The remaining piles are being moved to other centers where needed. In the foreground is the scrap pile from which the residents fashioned most of their …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-615/
Harvesting daikon seeds (ddr-densho-37-1390)
img Harvesting daikon seeds (ddr-densho-37-1390)
Included annotation: F-502, Daikon Seed Ranch (Harvesting).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1390/
Grading and sorting hogs (ddr-densho-37-2156)
img Grading and sorting hogs (ddr-densho-37-2156)
Written on back: grading and sorting hogs.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-2156/
Newspaper office workers (ddr-densho-37-687)
img Newspaper office workers (ddr-densho-37-687)
Original WRA caption: A group of part time high school student workers in project newspaper office.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-687/
Japanese Americans picking peas (ddr-densho-37-140)
img Japanese Americans picking peas (ddr-densho-37-140)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-140/
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