Migratory Cotton Workers in San Joaquin Valley 1938

Migratory field workers pick cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California, in November 1938. Workers from diverse backgrounds, including African Americans, Mexicans, and white refugees, earn seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of cotton, while labor strikers demand one dollar. This image documents the lives of migrant agricultural laborers during the 1930s.

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