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contract laborers

Spanish translation: temporeros


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English term or phrase:contract laborers
Spanish translation:temporeros
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17:54 Jan 27, 2004
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History / Immigration, U.S. 1923
English term or phrase: contract laborers
[INMIGRATION RESTRICTION, United States Bureau of Immigration, Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, 1923]

The immigration act of 1882 which, as already indicated, was the first general law upon the subject, provided for the exclusion from the United States of the following classes only: Convicts, lunatics, idiots (...) The law underwent more or less important revisions(...) until the last-mentioned act, which is the present immigration act, denies admission to many classes of aliens, including the following: idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons (...); immoral persons and persons coming for an immoral purpose; contract laborers; persons likely to become a public charge...
César Cornejo Fuster
Local time: 17:32
trabajadores temporales/temporeros
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Pablo Grosschmid
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Local time: 17:32
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1trabajadores contratados/ empleados con contrato a plazo
jab
4peón/jornalero de contrata
Alicia Jordá
4trabajadores temporales/temporeros
Pablo Grosschmid


  

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trabajadores contratados/ empleados con contrato a plazo


Explanation:
I means that they are employed for a period of time only

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
trabajadores temporales/temporeros


Explanation:
sugerencia

Pablo Grosschmid
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peón/jornalero de contrata


Explanation:
generalmente por horas, a destajo

Alicia Jordá
Local time: 17:32
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