agricultural labor
Tilling and harvesting
Agricultural labor is work performed on farms and in fields—planting, cultivating, harvesting, and tending livestock.
The term often appears in legal and economic contexts, where agricultural laborers have historically been treated differently from other workers: Agricultural labor was excluded from early minimum wage laws.
The work is physically demanding and often seasonal.
- braceroGuest agricultural laborer
- guest workerForeign temporary hire
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- herdingManaging animal groups
feeding · irrigating · farm worker · field hand · fertilizing · piecework · threshing · shearing · sharecropping · stoop · farmhand · Chavez · unionization · subsistence farming · dirt poor · planting · crop rotation · milking
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- Rural Agriculturefarmers, farming communities, ranchers, farm workers, dairy farmers
- labor systemschattel slavery, debt bondage, indentured servitude, manorialism, peonage
- migrant labormigrant workers, foreign workers, farmworkers, guest workers, agricultural workers
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
agricultural laborfactory work
Employment in manufacturing facilities
industrial labor · office work · desk work · financial services · retail work
agricultural laborintellectual labor
Work requiring thought
desk work · professional services · clerical work · creative work · academic work