Migrant Farming

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The writer looks at the subject of migrant farm laborers in this article. The current state of migrant farming in the United States and California is discussed. The writer takes a general look at the migrant farm-working industry, paying particular attenion, with a specific focus on California.

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"Migrant farm labor has been the seamy underside to American capitalism for centuries. However the size and color of the agricultural work force has changed over the past fifty years in the United States shifting from family and local community members to predominately Hispanic seasonal migrant workers. Since the Mexicans can be found picking citrus fruit in Florida, harvesting tobacco in North Carolina, collecting mushrooms in Pennsylvania, tending poultry in Maine, packing orchard crops in Washington, cleaning fish in Alaska and working in the slaughter houses in Iowa, while continuing their ... "

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