Instead farm labor contractors. or crew leaders as they are called. recruit labor crews and transport them to the places where the picking is done. The crew leader runs the show as far as the workers are concerned. He directs the field operations. the labor camps and often the stores where they buy food. He keeps count of the units they work and pays their salaries. The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 attempted to curb the exploitation of both the farmer and the migrant farmworker by the crew leader. The farmer was sometimes left with a crop rotting in the field because the crew leader never appeared on the promised date. Workers recruited to drive tractors found themselves doing stoop labor.