migrant laborers
Traveling harvest hands
Migrant laborers are workers who move from place to place following employment opportunities, typically in agriculture or construction.
The term often describes people who travel seasonally to harvest crops: Migrant laborers picked strawberries in California before moving north for the apple harvest.
The phrase can carry political weight in debates about immigration and workers' rights.
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- harvestGathering mature crops
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- farmworkersAgricultural manual laborers
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- industrial workersfactory workers, assembly workers, maintenance crews, maintenance crew, forklift drivers
migrant laborersemployers
Those who hire staff
landowners · plantation owners · labor contractors · capitalists · management
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