stoop work

A form of stoopwork — Unskilled agricultural labor that involves stooping to reach low-growing plants.

Meanings

nounstoop work (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of stoopwork.

    Although Allos/Carlos has suffered with back-breaking pain and itch from field work, mass media and farm employers have spread the ideologies that Filipinos are “ideal for stoop work.”

    2007, Youngsuk Chae, Politicizing Asian American Literature
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    After Cobb had consulted with the experts at Texas Tech in Lubbock to learn which strains of cotton were appropriate for his new land, and when his first fields were planted by tractor, broad and open and requiring no stoop work by imported Mexicans, he heard from the college expert the bests news of all: "This year Lubbock cotton is bringing in top dollar."

    2014, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel, page 1266

    I had known these dirt-poor migrant workers so well frommy daysaccompanying them as they followed the harvests all over California– picking cotton in Corcoran, or doing back-breaking stoop work for ten cents an hour in the pea fields of Nipomo.

    2014, Alan Parker, The Sucker's Kiss
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