farm work
Tilling and harvesting
Farm work is the physical labor involved in agricultural operations—planting, harvesting, tending livestock, maintaining equipment and structures.
The term often carries connotations of demanding, low-paid employment: Migrant workers do most of the farm work in this region.
Distinguished from farm management or ownership, farm work emphasizes the hands-on tasks rather than business decisions.
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- early morningsFirst hours after sunrise
- sunrise to sunsetPeriod of natural light
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
milking cows · sowing · harvesting · shearing · mucking stalls · apple picking · draft horse · pruning · fertilizing · oxen · crop rotation · threshing · yoke · mule teams · irrigation · draught animal · feeding · chicken coop
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- laborlabor, labor union, labor force, laborers, labor movement
- manual laborlifting, carrying, shoveling, loading, unloading
- farm jobsfarmhands, field hands, field workers, harvester, picker
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- peasantryserfs, villagers, common folk, laborers, farmhands
farm workoffice work
Administrative job tasks
desk job · office job · clerical work · retail work · financial services
farm workdesk work
Sedentary office labor
intellectual labor · paperwork · clerical work · professional services · consulting
farm workmining
Extracting earth's resources
strip mining · deforestation · urban development · manufacturing · demolition