migrant farmworkers
Itinerant crop pickers
Migrant farmworkers are laborers who travel from place to place following seasonal agricultural work—planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.
The term often implies precarious employment conditions: low wages, temporary housing, and limited legal protections.
In the United States, migrant farmworkers are disproportionately immigrants, many undocumented.
Migrant farmworkers pick most of the produce Americans eat.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- field handsAgricultural manual laborers
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
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- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, milking
- labor abusewage theft, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, withheld wages, minimum wage violations
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Agricultural operation supervisors
migrant farmworkerslandowners
Holders of real property
growers · plantation owners · landed gentry · ranchers · gentleman farmers
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