fieldhands
Agricultural manual workers
Fieldhands are laborers who work in agricultural fields, planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.
The term appears most often in historical contexts, particularly describing enslaved workers on American plantations: The fieldhands worked from dawn to dusk in the cotton fields.
It distinguishes outdoor agricultural workers from those with domestic or skilled duties.
Farmer paying rent in crops
- tenantOne who rents property
- peonIndentured low-status worker
- indenturedContracted to serve
- bondservantOne bound to serve
overseer · gang · crew · quarters · cotton · tobacco · sugarcane · rice
Turning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
planting · hoeing · weeding · crop rotation · fertilizing · soil · furrow · seedbed
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- exertionVigorous physical effort
- manualWritten instructions for use
- physicalOf body or matter
muscle · drudgery · grind · effort · backbreaking · grueling · sunup · sundown
sharecropper
Farmer paying rent in crops
- tenantOne who rents property
- peonIndentured low-status worker
- indenturedContracted to serve
bondservant · overseer · gang · crew · quarters · cotton · tobacco · sugarcane · rice · colonial
plowing
Turning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
- cultivationFostering growth through care
irrigation · planting · hoeing · weeding · crop rotation · fertilizing · soil · furrow · seedbed · transplanting
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
physical · muscle · drudgery · grind · effort · backbreaking · grueling · sunup · sundown · callused
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
husking · bundling · gleaning · crop · yield · sickle · scythe · bushel · sheaf · baling
farmstead
Farm with residence
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
acreage · farmland · meadow · village · hamlet · provincial · rustic · bucolic · agrarian · outbuilding
fieldhandsoffice workers
Indoor professional employees
factory workers · secretaries · white-collar workers · clerks · corporate employees
fieldhandslandowners
Holders of real property
plantation owners · masters · slaveholders · bosses · overseers
fieldhandsprofessionals
Skilled, paid practitioners
doctors · lawyers · engineers · specialists · craftsmen