The Migrant Worker Experience

What is the Dust Bowl?

• The dust bowl is an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930's.
• If you inhale the dust, you could suffer coughing spasms, shortness of breath, asthma, bronchitis, and the flu.

Where in Cali. did Migrant Workers work?

• Migrant Workers had to work in the west coast in California.
• 200,000 people that Migranted from the dust bowl went to California.
• Farmers became farm workers until they had money to buy their land.

What a typical day be like for migrant workers be like?

• Treated poorly they didn’t have a stabilized house (they made their houses themselves)
• They were not allowed to leave the state without permission.
• Children didn’t get an education.

Salaries, Working for Migrant Workers.

• Typical salaries were harsh that even children have to work.
• They earn $3.50 a day which is equivalent to $47.78. It’s pretty low.
• Working conditions for migrant workers were harsh and unbearable. Losing limbs, Girls getting scalped, boys losing fingers in the mines and many worse inncedients

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Sites

• "Dust Bowl." History. Ed. E. Foner and John A. Garraty. A&E Networks, 1991. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
• "The Great Depression: California in the Thirties." Web. 5 Nov. 2015.
• "Migrant Farmers in the Depression Era."
• " A Day In The Life Of Migrant Workers During The Great Depression - Jaylin's Group4.