farmworker

Noun

farmworker (plural farmworkers)

1. A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
   • Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press...
   • Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers2017 March 31, “Hail Cesar!”, in National Review

   Synonyms:

   farmhand