1938 Cotton Picking Migratory Workers in San Joaquin Valley

In November 1938, migratory field workers pick cotton in the San Joaquin Valley of California. These laborers earned seventy-five cents for every hundred pounds of cotton harvested. Strikers from the CIO union pushed for a wage increase to one dollar per hundred pounds. An experienced picker could collect about two hundred pounds daily under favorable conditions, illustrating the labor landscape of Californias cotton industry.

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