“Hard drug of Mediterranean producers”, thirty years ago already, Jean-Pierre Berlan* described the systematic use of foreign seasonal workers in the production of fruit and vegetables in the south of France. Housed in a precarious or even undignified manner, underpaid, overexploited, exposed to chemicals, this workforce, of essentially North African origin, remained for decades at the mercy of the employer, subject to their good will for the renewal of a contract signed at the time under the aegis of the IMO**. From now on, Latin American seasonal workers replace the former Moroccan and Tunisian workers but their state of servitude has not changed: sent to France by temporary employment companies (ETT) based most often in Spain, they can be fired. overnight if they are not productive and docile enough. The cage did not open.