Word: agribusinessmen
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Since the 1890's California agribusinessmen have owned large tracts of land; they have exploited waves of cheap labor pools using the migrant pattern to keep them uneducated, disenfranchised, and paid wages so low that the children must work, perpetuating the cycle. The first farmworkers were Chinese--even then there were attempts to organize, but the growers counterattacked with violence and anti-oriental laws. After the Chinese came Japanese, then Filipinos, Okies, Mexicans, and now, Arabs from Yemen...
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