Monterey and San Benito counties in California. owes a particularly large debt to the FilipinoAmerican community. Starting in the late 1890s. Chinese. Japanese and Filipino farm laborers were the engine for the development and growth of the Salinas Valley agricultural industry. Farm labor work on strawberry and peach farms was often backbreaking. laborers rose at dawn and worked until dusk. and were generally paid very poorly. Additionally. Filipino immigrants were often treated horribly and harshly discriminated against. Filipino farm workers formed the first organized group in the early history of the United Farm Workers Union. Despite these deplorable working conditions and societal obstacles. over the last hundred years.
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