Definitions
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- noun A person hired to
work on thefarm or in theagricultural industry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Simply dressing/looking like a daylaborer or farmworker is not going to be enough.
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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.
Un Homme in Full 2008
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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.
Un Homme in Full 2008
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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.
Un Homme in Full 2008
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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."
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Family, friends recall farmworker's kindness, hard work jcox@bakersfield.com | Wednesday, Jul 21 2010 07: 12 PM
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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."
SteveLendmanBlog 2009
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Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a
Countercurrents.org 2009
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"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.
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At about that time, I got to know César Chávez, the great farmworker organizer.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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