farm labor
Hands for harvesting
Farm labor is the physical work involved in agricultural production—planting, cultivating, harvesting, and tending livestock.
The term often refers collectively to the workers who perform such tasks: The harvest depends on seasonal farm labor.
Farm labor carries connotations of demanding physical work, often performed by migrant or immigrant workers for low wages.
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- migrant workersPeople moving for jobs
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
harvesting · harvest season · seasonal employment · stoop · sharecropper · irrigation · herding · backbreaking · sweat equity · milking · subsistence farming · campo · braceros · work visa · day laborer · field hands · piece rate · threshing
- agriculturefarms, crops, farmers, farming, crop yields
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- American Farmingfamily farms, corn, wheat, hay, farmsteads
- Farmsfarmhouse, barnyard, crops, farmstand, field
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
farm laboroffice work
Administrative job tasks
desk job · office job · clerical work · professional services
farm labordesk work
Sedentary office labor
intellectual labor · clerical work · professional services · paperwork · data entry
farm laborfinancial services
Economic offerings from institutions
manufacturing · retail work · banking · industrial labor · factory work