itinerant worker
Roving job seeker
An itinerant worker travels from place to place for employment, typically following seasonal work like harvesting crops or construction projects.
The term emphasizes mobility rather than skill level—migrant farmworkers picking fruit, traveling nurses filling hospital shortages, and carnival workers all qualify.
Itinerant workers followed the harvest north through California.
Foreign temporary hire
- braceroGuest agricultural laborer
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
- relocationPermanent change of residence
immigration · emigrant · expatriate · displaced · undocumented · recruitment · exploitation · trafficking
Aimless, rootless traveler
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- trampWandering homeless person
- rootlessHaving no stable foundation
footloose · journeyman · wayfarer · peripatetic · transient · wanderer · roving · traveling
Gathering mature crops
- farmworkerAgricultural labor employee
- pickerOne who gathers
- orchardFruit tree plantation
- vineyardGrape-growing estate
crop · fieldwork · planting · pruning · threshing · agriculture · vegetables · cannery
Pay per unit produced
- freelancingSelf-directed contract work
- on-callAvailable when summoned
- subcontractingHiring others for portions
- handymanVersatile home repairer
guestworker
Foreign temporary hire
- braceroGuest agricultural laborer
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
relocation · immigration · emigrant · expatriate · displaced · undocumented · recruitment · exploitation · trafficking
drifter
Aimless, rootless traveler
rootless · footloose · journeyman · wayfarer · peripatetic · transient · wanderer · roving · traveling · unsettled
harvest
Gathering mature crops
- farmworkerAgricultural labor employee
- pickerOne who gathers
- orchardFruit tree plantation
vineyard · crop · fieldwork · planting · pruning · threshing · agriculture · vegetables · cannery · meatpacking
piecework
Pay per unit produced
- freelancingSelf-directed contract work
- on-callAvailable when summoned
- subcontractingHiring others for portions
- rural workerspeasant, farm laborer, farmhand, farmworker, field hand
- mobile workerstruck driver, trucker, traveling salesman, traveling nurse, delivery driver
- wandererswanderer, hikers, vagabond, wanderers, drifter
worker, itinerary, itinerant, reiterate, iteration, iterative, reiteration, itinerants, reiterative