family labor
Kin-based workforce
Family labor is work performed by family members rather than hired employees, especially on farms or in family-owned businesses.
The term appears most often in agricultural and economic contexts, where it describes unpaid or underpaid contributions from spouses, children, or relatives: The farm relied heavily on family labor during harvest season.
Family labor complicates traditional economic measures since it often goes uncompensated or is exchanged for room and board rather than wages.
- farmworkAgricultural labor duties
- harvestGathering mature crops
- kinshipState of being related
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- householdDomestic unit of residents
chores · unpaid · toil · dawn to dusk · fields · siblings · relatives · subsistence · putting food on the table · sweat · blood sweat and tears · generations · domestic · childcare · plantation · migrant · hands · all hands on deck
family laborhired hands
Paid temporary workers
wage labor · contract labor · day laborers · migrant workers · seasonal workers
family laborsalaried work
Compensated employment arrangement
industrial labor · unionized labor · factory workers · organized labor
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