Crossword clues for farmworker
farmworker
Wiktionary
n. A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry.
Wikipedia
A farmworker is a hired agricultural worker on a farm. However, in discussions relating to labor law application, the term “farmworker” is sometimes used more narrowly, applying only to a hired worker involved in agricultural production, including harvesting, i.e. not to a worker in other on-farm jobs, such as packing.
Usage examples of "farmworker".
Now a golden sovereign for two nights was more than a fair rent, in the days when a farmworker might hope to make fifteen pounds in a good year.
Elysia gazed listlessly through the window of the carriage and saw the farmworkers in the fields sweating to bring in the last of the harvest.
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which had won a difficult strike in the Ohio tomato fields in 1979, the largest agricultural strike ever in the Midwest, brought thousands of farmworkers together in several Midwest states.
Bustamantes and Sanchezes were suspicious of foul play, but the National Farmworkers Union was convinced of it.
A dozen male farmworkers hopped off the back of the truck and rearranged themselves.
Most of his supporters are young: Students, dropouts, artists, poets, crazies -- the people who respect Cesar Chavez, but who can't really relate to church-going farmworkers.