Housing? It may be no more than a hillside. The basic understanding that all of us have about the terms and conditions of our employment is commonly denied to migrant farmworkers. To evade their responsibilities under those few laws that do afford protection to farmworkers. agricultural employers increasingly resort to the use of crewleaders to bring a workforce to their fields--transported in all too many instances in unsafe vehicles by drunk drivers. Modern day peonage persists: Farmworkers work grueling long dys under crippling conditions and end up with nothing in their pockets after crewleaders deduct exorbitant amounts for transportation. and for room and board which no Member of this body would find remotely tolerable.