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Your family isn't treating you like shit because they're "forced" to by economics.
They're doing that because they're a shitty family.
Let them have the dignity of their choice, & make your own choices accordingly.
They're doing that because they're a shitty family.
Let them have the dignity of their choice, & make your own choices accordingly.
In conclusion: No, farmers are not farmworkers.
That's not an opinion. It's a fact: farmer & farmworker are concretely different jobs that are counted separately in DOL, USDA, and other demographic statistics.
That's not an opinion. It's a fact: farmer & farmworker are concretely different jobs that are counted separately in DOL, USDA, and other demographic statistics.
Tenant farming is a weird liminal space where you don't own the land- but you DO own your own equipment & client list, & often hire labor yourself.
Esp in today's farming where it takes a lot of capital to be a tenant farmer, it's mostly like any other contracting business.
Esp in today's farming where it takes a lot of capital to be a tenant farmer, it's mostly like any other contracting business.
Tenant farming pre-1980 is a whole other animal. If we're talking historical farm labor, tenant farming & esp sharecropping fall into the farmworker category.
But when we're talking modern farmworker activism, there's a big clear dividing line btwn who's labor & who's capital.
But when we're talking modern farmworker activism, there's a big clear dividing line btwn who's labor & who's capital.
In conclusion, "farmworkers are the real farmers!" is some grade-A capitalist respectability politics bullshit.
Farmers are capital. That's concretely reflected in US farm policy, lending policy, & labor statistics.
Farmers are capital. That's concretely reflected in US farm policy, lending policy, & labor statistics.
Farm workers are labor. They self-identify, organize, & call themselves workers. They DO NOT call themselves farmers.
It's farm *owners* who are pushing that "farmers & farmworkers are the same" narrative. It's capital.
Don't fall for it.
It's farm *owners* who are pushing that "farmers & farmworkers are the same" narrative. It's capital.
Don't fall for it.
