At age 6, Renato Ramirez would wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to await the blare of a horn coming from the truck in the road. He and his family of farmworkers would jump in for a long day of working in the field. “In the cotton field there was never any shade, just the sun and the calf-high cotton plants,” Ramirez said. “My siblings, at the time, were too young to work, so my mother would put them under the work trucks because that was the only available shade. At the end of the day I…