The vast majority of America’s farm laborers are immigrants, many of them undocumented. Farm work is notoriously dangerous, arduous and toxic; the average U.S. farmworker has a life expectancy of just 49 years. Farm laborers are generally paid piecework rates. Their average earnings are $7,500 a year, or $150 a week, by far the lowest […]
John Bowe
John Bowe is a co-editor of GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. He has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.