field labor
Working the land
Field labor is physical work performed outdoors in agricultural settings—planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.
The term often carries connotations of grueling conditions and low wages: Migrant workers provide most of the field labor during harvest season.
Historically associated with slavery and indentured servitude, field labor remains among the most physically demanding forms of work.
- farmworkAgricultural labor duties
- farm handsAgricultural laborers for hire
- harvestGathering mature crops
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- cash cropsPlants grown for profit
migrant · toil · sweat · picking · planting · soil · backbreaking · seasonal · workers · orchards · vineyards · hoeing · sun · sun up · dust · rows · manual · agriculture
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, crop farming, milking
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
- Caribbean Slaveryplantation, sugar plantations, slave owners, chattel slavery, slave revolts
- Guiana slaverySuriname, French Guiana, Demerara, maroons, plantation economy
- Jewish Agriculturesabbatical year, mixed seeds, ethical farming, kibbutz
- Reconstructionfreedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, carpetbaggers
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Sedentary office labor
office work · desk job · remote work · office job · studio work
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Sedentary office labor
intellectual labor · clerical work · professional services · paperwork · creative work
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