Only a few. Nearly every farmer is facing a problem of There just aren’t enough for the hands to hire. Farming is generally very seasonal you work very hard for long hours during harvest, but that’s only two or three weeks a year. Planting season again, you work very hard for a couple weeks, but the new it’s done and you just wait for things to grow. It’s not just waiting, You occasionally have to get out to weed and monitor the conditions, but there’s many weeks where there’s little to do and no need for a farmhand.
Many farmers have a second job of some sort that they work between farming tasks.
immigration restrictions also hurt because people who are poor and would take anything and be happy with work for those few weeks can’t get in. In the poorest countries, you can easily have a nice living only working a few weeks a year in the US.
Used to it was really easy for farm workers to migrate back forth across the southern boarder of the US. Reagan changed the rules so that it was harder for Mexicans workers to go back and forth to Mexico. This is because they wanted to be able to exploit their labor year round and by criminalizing immigration they allowed workers to be locked up for further exploitation with even less pay because slavery is legal in prison
It’s quite interesting that even 160 years after slavery became illegal in the US, it’s still practised and now supports the prison industrial complex. Populated primarily with people who wouldve been slaves pre-civil war. Convenient. Racism is alive and well.
US continues its slavery problem just in a different way. Sick bastards.
It’s wild the way that American workers are still plagued by the legacy of slavery. Healthcare being tied to employment, our inability to protest without losing our jobs, at will employment. Nearly every disparity between other first world nation workers and american workers are caused by the legacy of slavery
Only a few. Nearly every farmer is facing a problem of There just aren’t enough for the hands to hire. Farming is generally very seasonal you work very hard for long hours during harvest, but that’s only two or three weeks a year. Planting season again, you work very hard for a couple weeks, but the new it’s done and you just wait for things to grow. It’s not just waiting, You occasionally have to get out to weed and monitor the conditions, but there’s many weeks where there’s little to do and no need for a farmhand.
Many farmers have a second job of some sort that they work between farming tasks.
immigration restrictions also hurt because people who are poor and would take anything and be happy with work for those few weeks can’t get in. In the poorest countries, you can easily have a nice living only working a few weeks a year in the US.
Used to it was really easy for farm workers to migrate back forth across the southern boarder of the US. Reagan changed the rules so that it was harder for Mexicans workers to go back and forth to Mexico. This is because they wanted to be able to exploit their labor year round and by criminalizing immigration they allowed workers to be locked up for further exploitation with even less pay because slavery is legal in prison
It’s quite interesting that even 160 years after slavery became illegal in the US, it’s still practised and now supports the prison industrial complex. Populated primarily with people who wouldve been slaves pre-civil war. Convenient. Racism is alive and well.
US continues its slavery problem just in a different way. Sick bastards.
It’s wild the way that American workers are still plagued by the legacy of slavery. Healthcare being tied to employment, our inability to protest without losing our jobs, at will employment. Nearly every disparity between other first world nation workers and american workers are caused by the legacy of slavery