Migrant Workers In The 1930s

People that left their home to find a job they were known as migrant workers. They traveled across the country or they left the country. Most of them did not find a job so they lived on the streets. Migrant Workers in the 1930s had to travel for work because they lost their farms and the government did not help them much. Migrant workers were treated poorly in the 1930s. The migrant workers travelled in groups and lived in tents (Ganzel, 2003). Thay had poor living and working environments. They had to live in random places to have shelter. The dust storms made farmers and their families move away. Then The Great Depression hit them (The Migrant Experience). The dust storms made it hard for the farmers to breathe. The Great Depression was hard for the migrant workers. More than 500,00 mexican americans were deported or pressured to leave during the mexican repatriation, and the number of farm workers of the mexican descent decreased (NFWM-YAYA Staff). They gave the mexicans all of the jobs so it was hard to find jobs in the United States. Then they decided to go off to other countries.

There wasn't enough work for everyone who came (Ganzel, 2003). Some people had to find families to live with so they can have food. In an attempt to maintain a steady income, workers had to follow the harvest around the state. When potatoes were ready to be picked, the migrants needed to be where the potatoes were (The Migrant Experience). They had to have to move across the country to help with the harvist to make money so they can feed their families. People had to work for other farmers if they did not have farms of their own (Ganzel, 2003). They didn't have enough money for a farmland