Migratory Field Workers Picking Cotton in California 1938

Migratory field workers pick cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California, in November 1938. They earn seventy-five cents for every hundred pounds harvested. At this time, workers are organizing strikes under the CIO union, advocating for a wage increase to one dollar per hundred pounds. This period marks significant labor movements in American agriculture.

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