1. Both sides agree that the prevalence of illegal workers gives a skewed picture of the farm labor market. 2. A lack of farm labor is just one shortage caused by anti-immigrant restrictions forced on the American economy in recent years. 3. Both issues resonate in California, a crucial battleground in the Presidential election where large agricultural businesses support a new source of cheap farm labor. 4. But it beats farm labor, and includes free day care for kids and elderly parents. 5. But most quit within six months, preferring the freedom of farm labor to the confines of the factory floor, he said. 6. Exercise for its own sake is unheard of, and with jobs scarce, Pritchiyev said, few even benefit from farm labor. 7. Farm labor is also hard to track. 8. Farmers hire scores of illegal workers and escape liability by paying licensed farm labor contractors provide crews. 9. He, too, was forced into farm labor, although by now he was also writing prolifically, albeit for himself. 10. His successful drive was one of the earliest efforts to organize American farm labor. |