tick down 下降

dial down 弱化

recession 經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退

put an asterisk on this job numbers today.標(biāo)注星號(hào)

number-crunchers 數(shù)據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)員

nonfarm payrolls 非農(nóng)就業(yè)數(shù) payroll 在職員工 as a job that doesn't take place on the farm.

weird 奇怪的

poultry plant 家禽養(yǎng)殖地

fisheries 漁 場(chǎng)

historically hard to track.

fluctuate a lot from season-to-season 波動(dòng)

large portion pf farmers aren't undocumented.

zoom into 深入探討

dairies 奶制品

hung out on that 閑逛

can you give me one memory that is still kind of firmly embedded in your brain?

be subsumed by grain 被谷物包圍

bales of hay 一垛垛甘草

fast forward a bunch of years

fissuring of the farm workplace 農(nóng)場(chǎng)工作場(chǎng)所的分裂

【when company stops hiring people directly and starts outsourcing parts of its operation to third parties. ]

ubereast 美國外賣公司 就像中國的美團(tuán)和餓了么

labor contractor 勞務(wù)承包商

meaning that farmers can be at arm's length form that and ought not to take the responsibility for the labor, in that the farm labor contractor take on.

congressional hearing 國會(huì)聽證會(huì)

There‘s ample evidence that we have a substantial shortage of domestic and immigrant worker choosing to work in agriculture.

the farm labor market is not really a free market.

農(nóng)場(chǎng)工人去留很大部分取決于農(nóng)場(chǎng)主許可與否，因?yàn)樗鼈兡茉龠@里工作的資格是與特定雇主掛鉤的簽證項(xiàng)目來到這里的，

不受勞動(dòng)法保護(hù) National labor Act

exclude from the majojr protections that are all workers enjoyed

plantation slavery 種植制

outlaw 宣布違法

retaliation 報(bào)復(fù)