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Through demographic and economic analysis, a clear understanding of the relevant provisions of Mexican law, interviews and visits to the homes and workplaces of current workers, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the labor conditions for agricultural workers in the Culiacán Valley. [...] At the end of the 19th century, the construction of a network of canals and pumps began to provide a push for winter harvests: “Construction of the Cañedo canal starts in 1899, and the Rosales canal is begun in 1922” (Rodríguez, 2005, p. [...] As new products and services are produced, and workers try to organize themselves, some kinds of work are performed in spaces where some of these rights and better earnings have been secured, while others are left to the rest of the workers who compete for the rest of the jobs, where these advantages are absent. [...] According to the literature assessing the quality of jobs one or two decades ago, in the Culiacán Valley, the better jobs tend to go to the local non-indigenous or white males, while the hardest jobs (picking and tending to the plants in the sun, or during the evening and early morning hours in the winter) are left to indigenous workers, a large number of women, and children. [...] We are very grateful to the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa and to the Social Service School in particular for their support for our survey, in both the association-based random sample and the analytical sample in Villa Juárez.