farm laborer
Hired agricultural hand
A farm laborer is a worker who performs physical tasks on a farm—planting, harvesting, tending livestock, operating machinery.
The term typically describes hired workers rather than farm owners or their families.
Farm laborers may be seasonal workers following harvests or permanent employees on larger agricultural operations: The farm laborers started picking at dawn.
- field handAgricultural labor worker
- braceroGuest agricultural laborer
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- migrant laborEmployment requiring relocation
work crew · fair wages · seasonal work · irrigator · planting · sickle · threshing · herding · piece rate · minimum wage · weeding · tractor · plow · fertilizing · rake · rows · irrigation system · tenant
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- farm workershired hand, field hand, harvester, herdsman, picker
- farmworkersfield hand, hired hand, harvester, picker, seasonal worker
- rural peoplevillagers, farmers, rural folk, peasant, villager
- farmhandsfield hand, ranch hand, barn hand, stable hand, hired hand
- farming historycrop rotation, enclosures, manorialism, threshing machine, open-field system
farm laborerlandowner
One possessing real estate
farmer · landlord · plantation owner · estate owner · landholder
farm laborerlanded gentry
Landowning class living on rents
executive · professional · white-collar worker · aristocrat · employer
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