Asked by @luhjo_.3

Why did farmers use migrant labor rather than full-time employees?

The work required only a few people.

Farmers needed to move the crops to market.

The work was seasonal.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"The work was seasonal."

Farmers hired migrant labor because demand for workers peaked at planting and harvest. Keeping full-time employees year-round would be costly when little or no labor was needed between seasons. The other choices are incorrect: they often needed many workers at peak times (not just a few), and moving crops to market doesn’t explain why temporary rather than permanent workers were used.