agricultural workers

Those who harvest

People who labor on farms and in fields—planting, cultivating, harvesting crops, or tending livestock.

The term encompasses farmhands, migrant laborers, and seasonal pickers.

Agricultural workers often perform physically demanding work for low wages, and their legal protections vary significantly by country: Agricultural workers were excluded from early U.S. labor laws.

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guest workers · crop · harvester · soil · sharecropper · horticulturist · braceros · planter · gleaner · agronomist · farmhand · day laborers · farm labor · plow · shovel · hoe · pickers · corn

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work environment/sector

agricultural workersoffice workers

Indoor professional employees

white-collar workers · corporate employees · factory workers · industrial workers · service workers

relationship to land/production

agricultural workersconsumers

Those who buy goods

processors · distributors

class/economic structure

agricultural workerslandowners

Holders of real property

plantation owners · landlords · industrialists · capitalists · landed gentry

Family

worker, cultivate, agriculture, cultivation, agricultural, agriculturist, agriculturalist

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