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- The only Americans who consistently earn a lower hourly wage are migrant farm workers.†
p. 6.5migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- It was the last stop on Route 66, end of the line for truckers, tourists, and migrants from the East.†
p. 21.2 *migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- The nation has about 1 million migrant farm workers and about 3.5 million fast food workers.†
p. 72.9migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- They have turned one of the nation's best-paying manufacturing jobs into one of the lowest-paying, created a migrant industrial workforce of poor immigrants, tolerated high injury rates, and spawned rural ghettos in the American heartland.†
p. 149.7
- the new industrial migrants†
p. 160.2migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- For more than a century, California agriculture has been dependent on migrant workers, on young men and women from rural villages in Mexico who travel north to pick by hand most of the state's fruits and vegetables.†
p. 161.6migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- Migrant workers have long played an important role in the agricultural economy of other states, picking berries in Oregon, apples in Washington, and tomatoes in Florida.†
p. 161.6
- Today, the United States, for the first time in its history, has begun to rely on a migrant industrial workforce.†
p. 161.7
- Thousands of new migrants now travel north to work in the slaughterhouses and meat processing plants of the High Plains.†
p. 161.8migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- Some of these new migrants save their earnings, then return home.†
p. 161.8
- These migrants come mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.†
p. 161.9
- As in so many other aspects of meatpacking, IBP was a trailblazer in recruiting migrant labor.†
p. 162.2migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- The real costs of this migrant industrial workforce are being borne not by the large meatpacking firms, but by the nation's meatpacking communities.†
p. 162.8
- Most of these new industrial migrants would gladly stay in one job and settle in one spot, if the wages and the working conditions were good.†
p. 163.5migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- The rise of a migrant industrial workforce poses a grave threat to de mocracy.†
p. 265.9migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an organization that campaigns on behalf of migrant farm workers in Florida, has persuaded the leading fast food chains — after years of protests — to help raise the wages and improve the working conditions in the fields there.†
p. 274.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrant) a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)