Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry.
Etymologies
- A compound of farm and worker. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Simply dressing/looking like a daylaborer or farmworker is not going to be enough.”
“This was a man who only two weeks earlier had raised a furor in France for calling a farmworker a “poor slob” when he yelled “Keep your dirty hands off me!” as Sarkozy greeted supporters at an agricultural event.”
“Family, friends recall farmworker's kindness, hard work jcox@bakersfield.com | Wednesday, Jul 21 2010 07: 12 PM”
“Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a”
“Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform.”
“Even though a farmworker is a black person, you cannot treat him as if you are still in 1989 during the (apartheid) years of the total onslaught.”
“At about that time, I got to know César Chávez, the great farmworker organizer.”
“Dust Bowl + great depression = really bad time to be a farmer or farmworker.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
“Susana de Anda's advocacy for clean drinking water in California's San Joaquin Valley is rooted in her childhood experiences growing up the daughter of a farmworker.”
The Huffington Post: Stephenie Foster: Hearts on Fire: Lighting the Spark for Social Change
“After farmers planted nearly 380,000 apple trees in 2009, the 1,500-acre cooperative has since begun raising pigs and cultivating bees for honey, farmworker Kim said.”
USA Today: North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms
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