San Joaquin Valley, California - Contract Labor - This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor; Scope and content: San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor. The labor of the young agricultural worker is contracted, but their spare time is wasted. Living in the contractor's camp paying the contractor for his tent and camping facilities in deductions from their pay, the young migratory agricultural worker becomes a commodity which the contrcator sells to the highest bidder among the small farmers anxxious to produce extra labor with
San Joaquin Valley, California - Contract Labor - This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor; Scope and content: San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor. The labor of the young agricultural worker is contracted, but their spare time is wasted. Living in the contractor's camp paying the contractor for his tent and camping facilities in deductions from their pay, the young migratory agricultural worker becomes a commodity which the contrcator sells to the highest bidder among the small farmers anxxious to produce extra labor with which to harvest their crops. These pictures were taken in the vicinity of a Copus Camp, which is a labor contractor operating in a number of California crop centers and in Idaho, Utah, and Colorado. Only those workers who have been issued Copus Crew buttons identifying themselves as paying guests of the Copus Camp (they rent tents and ground space) are entitled to employment in a Copus contracted field. But the possession of a button is not assurance of immediate work. Arriving at the scene of work promised by the
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