farmworker
Hired harvest helper
A farmworker is a person employed to do agricultural labor—planting, harvesting, tending livestock, or maintaining equipment.
The term often refers specifically to hired hands rather than farm owners or family members: Farmworkers harvested the strawberry fields before dawn.
In American usage, farmworker frequently describes migrant or seasonal laborers.
Given employment
- handGrasping body part
- peonIndentured low-status worker
- braceroGuest agricultural laborer
- campesinoSpanish-speaking rural farmer
crew · gang · foreman · overseer · wage · piecework · contract · employment
Recurring at fixed intervals
- itinerantMoving for work
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- temporaryLimited in duration
- pickerOne who gathers
fieldhand · traveling · cyclical · housing · camp · barracks · circuit · following
Moisture from skin pores
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
- callusesThickened protective skin areas
sunup · sundown · stooping · bending · kneeling · heat · exposure · fatigue
Fostering growth through care
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
plowing · fertilizing · weeding · hoeing · crop · harvest · fieldwork · pesticide
hired
Given employment
campesino · crew · gang · foreman · overseer · wage · piecework · contract · employment · unionizing
seasonal
Recurring at fixed intervals
picker · fieldhand · traveling · cyclical · housing · camp · barracks · circuit · following · crops
sweat
Moisture from skin pores
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
calluses · sunup · sundown · stooping · bending · kneeling · heat · exposure · fatigue · endurance
cultivation
Fostering growth through care
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
tilling · plowing · fertilizing · weeding · hoeing · crop · harvest · fieldwork · pesticide · herbicide
picking
Act of selecting
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
gleaning · combine · harvester · sickle · scythe · bushel · crate · fruit · vegetables · grapes
herding
Managing animal groups
rancher · cattle · milking · dairy · creamery · pasture · grazing · barn · feedlot · branding
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- farm workershired hand, field hand, harvester, herdsman, picker
- farmworkersfield hand, fieldworker, hired hand, harvester, day laborer
- rural peoplevillagers, farmers, rancher, rural folk, peasant
- rural workerspeasant, field hand, rural laborer, sharecropper, day laborer
- blue-collarblue collar, blue-collar, laborer, manual labor, hard hat
farmworkerlandowner
One possessing real estate
landlord · plantation owner · estate owner · rancher · farmer
farmworkerfactory worker
Manufacturing floor employee
office worker · white-collar worker · industrial worker · sweatshop worker · construction worker
farmworkerexecutive
Senior organizational leader
CEO · white-collar worker · corporate lawyer · banker · stockbroker