Sedgewick also focuses on the production history of coffee. He details the story of James Hill, an Englishman who applied industrial methods – sometimes brutal – to the growing of coffee in El Salvador, creating a rigid monoculture of coffee and a pool of native workers driven by hunger – their native food sources having been deliberately destroyed – to work the coffee plantations.[3] "Eventually, he even recoiled at the sound of workers' laughter, because it meant they were squandering time and energy that belonged to him."[4]