VISUAL ACTIVITYMigrant Workers Mexican immigrants constituted more than two-thirds of crop workers in 2015 and a sizable share of tobacco workers. These migrant workers labor in a tobacco curing barn in Finchville, Kentucky, where tobacco hangs from rafters. The labor not only was long and arduous but also exposed workers to nicotine and other poisons that could be absorbed directly through the skin.READING THE IMAGE: What makes tobacco curing hazardous for these workers? What do their dress and gestures suggest about the nature of their work? CONNECTIONS: What other kinds of labor did immigrants from Latin America and Asia perform?

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