We'll zoom into three of the biggest trends shaping the farm labor force today.

我们将重点关注塑造当今农业劳动力的三个最大趋势。

That is the grand mystery of the farm labor market.

这就是农业劳动力市场的巨大奥秘。

Among the worst states are those who work outdoors, like construction laborers and street vendors in cities and farm labor in rural areas.

最糟糕的州之一是那些在户外工作的人，比如城市的建筑工人和街头小贩，以及农村地区的农场工人。

Except the farm labor market is not really a free market in some pretty key ways.

但农业劳动力市场在某些关键方面并不是真正的自由市场。

The farmer can't find workers and the farm labor contractor helps him find workers, for a fee, obviously.

农民找不到工人，农场劳务承包商帮他找工人，显然是收费的。

So it's not surprising that the economists of the time, who were called the Physiocrats, actually put the center of their attention to farm labor.

所以那时的经济学家，也被称为重农主义者，他们实际上把注意力放在了农业劳动上。

Farm workers are a big focus in Daniel's research, so he was the first person we called to understand the main trends affecting the farm labor force.

农场工人是丹尼尔研究的重点，因此他是我们第一个致电了解影响农场劳动力的主要趋势的人。

A wage and hour violation, like wage theft, for instance - and Daniel says farm labor contractors are some of the biggest violators of these laws in the agriculture industry.

例如，违反工资和工时规定，例如克扣工资，丹尼尔表示，农场劳工承包商是农业行业中违反这些法律的最大者之一。

Instead of being directly hired by a farmer, the farmer contracts with the farm labor contractor, who then goes out and finds workers who they send to the farms.

农民不是直接受雇于农民，而是与农场劳务承包商签订合同，然后农场劳务承包商出去寻找工人并派往农场。

What ends up happening is that the farm labor contractors become sort of a risk absorber for the employers, meaning that if a labor wage and hour violation occurs, the employer can say, I am at arm's length from that.

最终发生的情况是，农场劳务承包商成为雇主的风险吸收者，这意味着如果发生劳动工资和工时违规，雇主可以说，我对此保持一定距离。