[skeeter]

I believe migrant labor tends to work harder in reverse proportion to their numbers in a given area.

Here in CA where we have millions I've seen all kinds of migrant labor, from busy and quality minded (increasingly rare) to lazy, inexperienced and dishonest. There is no one word to characterize them.

[cripplecreek]

Around here local kids do work on the farms but they aren’t big factory farms.