plantation work
Harvesting cash crops
Plantation work refers to agricultural labor on large estates, historically associated with the brutal forced labor of enslaved people on sugar, cotton, and tobacco plantations in the Americas and Caribbean.
The term now encompasses any farm work on large-scale crop operations, though it carries the weight of its history: The museum documented the conditions of plantation work in the antebellum South.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- cotton ginFiber-seed separating machine
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- sugarCrystalline carbohydrate sweetener
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plantation worksubsistence farming
Growing food for household
family farming · smallholding · homesteading · cooperative farming · sharecropping
plantation workself-employment
Working for yourself
wage labor · entrepreneurship · independent work · leisure · freelance work
plantation workindustrial labor
Work in manufacturing sectors
office work · factory work · desk job · clerical work · professional services
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