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County regulators contend that their enforcement has improved safety conditions for laborers and noted that use of toxic pesticides has decreased significantly over the last decade.

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In California, laborers as young as 12 can legally work in agriculture.

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More than 60 years ago, Marxist auto worker James Boggs lamented automation’s role in the seemingly inevitable demise of the American laborer.

When the laborers who bore the heat and toil of the full day’s work are jealous, the owner of the field asks them why they resent his generosity.

Many of them are paid laborers who work the fields during the growing season, and then come to Aswan to work in the quarry during the remainder of the year.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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