farmworker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of farmworker
Example Sentences
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And for the farmworker women who are leading this work, it feels more urgent than ever that they continue leading.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
The community has been “shaken to its foundation,” said Ramirez, the founder of Justice for Migrant Women, a civil rights organization focusing on farmworker and migrant women.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
“Why after more than 30 years did she keep these secrets?” the 66-year-old Caleas said, referring to Huerta, who has said she did so to protect the farmworker movement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
It was one of several farmworker dwellings lined up in a row.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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