Agricultural Labor (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Agriculture in the United States is rooted in the exploitation of labor and class and carries a legacy into the present-day agricultural industry. This paper examines migrant labor camps in New York, from 1943-2000, which trapped thousands of migrant farm laborers from the American South and Caribbean into systems...
Hohokam Fieldhouses and Agricultural Labor (2015)
Construction, operation, and maintenance of the extensive prehistoric irrigation systems of the Phoenix Basin required a significant input of labor. The ethnographic record suggests that the organization of agricultural labor among smallholder irrigation farmers can be varied and complex. Hohokam householders had a variety of labor arrangements at their disposal, and were flexible in their application of different strategies to meet changing environmental and cultural conditions. Hohokam...