Editing Manzanar (section)

=== Employment ===
[[File:Ansel Adams - Farm workers and Mt. Williamson.jpg|thumb|right|Farm workers at Manzanar, 1943 by [[Ansel Adams]]]]
Most of the adults were employed at Manzanar to keep the camp running.<ref name="nps manzanar daily life"/> In order for the camps to be self-sufficient, the adults were employed in a variety of jobs to supply the camp and the military.<ref name="nps manzanar work">{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/manz/work.html |title=Work |work=Manzanar National Historic Site |publisher= National Park Service |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311095646/https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/manz/work.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Jobs included clothing and furniture manufacturing, farming and tending orchards, military manufacturing such as camouflage netting and experimental rubber, teaching, civil service jobs such as police, fire fighters, and nursing, and general service jobs operating stores, beauty parlors, and a bank.<ref name="nps manzanar work"/>

A farm and orchards provided vegetables and fruits for use by the camp,<ref name="nps japanese americans manzanar"/> and people of all ages worked to maintain them.<ref name="nps manzanar work"/> By the summer of 1943, camp gardens and farms were producing potatoes, onions, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, watermelon, eggplant, tomatoes, aster, red radishes, and peppers.<ref name="heitz 4"/> Eventually, there were more than 400 acres of farms producing more than 80 percent of the produce used by the camp.<ref name="heitz 4"/> In early 1944, a chicken ranch began operation, and in late April of the same year, the camp opened a hog farm. Both operations provided welcome meat supplements to the diet.<ref name="CAE171">Burton ''et al.'' (1999), p. 171.</ref>

Shortly after being interned, [[Togo Tanaka]] and Joe Masaoka were hired by anthropologist [[Robert Redfield]] as documentary historians for the camp.<ref name="latimes obit togo tanaka 20090705"/><ref name="1973 interview calstate fullerton">{{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft0p30026h&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text
|title=An Interview with Togo W. Tanaka |author1-first=Betty E. |author1-last=Mitson |author2-first=David A. |author2-last=Hacker |editor-first=Arthur A. |editor-last=Hansen |date=May 19, 1973 |publisher=[[California State University, Fullerton]] |page=125 |access-date=June 3, 2020 |archive-date=June 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603023355/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft0p30026h&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Niiya">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Niiya |first=Brian |url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Togo%20Tanaka/ |title=Togo Tanaka |encyclopedia=Densho Encyclopedia |access-date=November 4, 2014}}</ref> In addition to his work at the ''[[#Manzanar Free Press|Manzanar Free Press]]'', he filed hundreds of reports to the WRA that often criticized those in charge at the camp and the living conditions in the camp.<ref name="latimes obit togo tanaka 20090705"/>

Unskilled workers earned [[United States dollar|US$]]8 per month (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|8|1942|r=1}}}} per month as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}), semi-skilled workers earned $12 per month (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|12|1942|r=0}}}} per month as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}), skilled workers made $16 per month (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|16|1942|r=0}}}} per month as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}), and professionals earned $19 per month (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|19|1942|r=0}}}} per month as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}).<ref name="nps japanese americans manzanar"/> In addition, everybody received $3.60 per month (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|3.6|1942|r=0}}}} per month as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}) as a clothing allowance.<ref name="Reflections7" />