Migratory Field Workers Picking Cotton California 1938

Migratory field workers pick cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California in November 1938. Workers earned seventy-five cents for every hundred pounds picked, amidst labor organization efforts for better wages. A skilled picker could harvest around two hundred pounds daily, illustrating the labor landscape of Californias cotton industry in the late 1930s.

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