farmworker

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English farm English worker English farmworker From farm + worker.

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.”

   “Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers”