The term migrant worker sometimes may be used to describe any worker who moves from one seasonal job to another.[1] This use is generally confined to lower-wage fields, perhaps because the term has been indelibly linked with low-wage farmworkers and illegal immigrants.[1] Examples of professions which could be called migrant workers, some of them quite lucrative, include: Electricians in the construction industry; other construction workers who travel from one construction job to another, often in different cities; wildland firefighters in the western United States; temporary/roving consulting work; and possibly even interstate truck drivers.
In America's history, starting at the end of the American Civil War, hobos were the migrant workers who performed much of this agricultural work, using freight railroads as their means of transportation to new jobs. During the collapse of capitalism in the Great Depression, so-called Okies who fled the dust bowl were a significant source of temporary farm labor. Cf. The Grapes of Wrath.
2007-09-19 19:06:43
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answered by jennifer j 3
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Read Grapes of Wrath.
2007-09-19 19:01:45
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answered by Anonymous
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maximum folk right here have it very close, yet they fail to attraction to close the cost of the issue. quantity one, there have been greater WHITE slaves in united statesa. than there have been blacks! remember, Europe grew to become into no longer a democracy. there have been tens of millions of undesirable whites living under the courts and kings of Europe. the only way maximum of those human beings ought to locate their far greater than to united statesa. grew to become into to indenture themselves to somebody rich. Blacks have been rookies to a equipment that had already been nicely generic. factor 2, slavery includes with it numerous connotations. One, all slaves are undesirable, stupid, and irresponsible. even although this might no longer be authentic, it notwithstanding is believed. factor 3. As for a white slave, he ought to now and lower back paintings himself into freedom (serve his time in an attempt to communicate). He ought to then reemerge into society devoid of every physique understanding he had as quickly as been a slave. Blacks on the different hand, with some remarkable exceptions, have been each physique slaves! hence, the connotation moved from slaves being undesirable, stupid, and irresponsible, to blacks being undesirable, stupid, and irresponsible. lower back, the actuality it is not authentic did no longer substitute the theory. factor 4. A black individual might earn his freedom the two by utilising get away, or in uncommon situations by utilising his grasp's own sturdy will, yet he ought to no longer do because of the fact the white slaves did. He ought to no longer get away his pores and skin shade, hence he ought to no longer get away the connotation that went alongside with slavery. fairly, that each and everyone slaves are undesirable, stupid, and irresponsible. human beings who're racists, are people who nevertheless carry those connotations approximately blacks to be authentic. that each and everyone blacks are undesirable, dumb, and irresponsible. it particularly is, they affiliate them with slavery. interior the 1930's (exceedingly interior the South), this opinion of blacks have been held to be authentic quite prejudicistic.
2016-10-05 01:17:40
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answered by torrez 4
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Depression, Stock market crash. everyone bought everything on credit and margin. Not enough money to pay back others?
hope that helps.
2007-09-19 18:59:39
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answered by Anonymous
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"Depression, Stock market crash. everyone bought everything on credit and margin. Not enough money to pay back others?"
Just like it is today!
2007-09-19 19:02:03
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answered by ipoian 5
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Read "The Grapes of Wrath".....
2007-09-19 19:00:27
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answered by theanswerman 4
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Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House etc etc......
2007-09-19 19:00:32
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answered by The Baboon Of Destiny 5
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http://www.farmworkers.org/immigrat.html
http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/imc/mice_and_men
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/vdb/file.html
http://www.lycos.com/info/1930s-america.html
These links should really help Hon. Good luck!!
2007-09-19 19:04:01
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answered by Hi Y'all! 4
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dustbowl. see "the grapes of wrath".
2007-09-19 19:00:30
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answered by Anonymous
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i dnno
2007-09-19 19:00:32
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answered by dinnn 1
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