The report said, however, these standards are often ignored and pointed to an estimated 246 million child laborers worldwide, as well as continued forced labor in agriculture, the military and sex work.
Those who labored in agriculture will receive $1,700.
The figures likely undercount child labor in agriculture, as it leaves out large populations of household workers and workers younger than 15.
But the broader story of labor in agriculture, economists and historians said, is that through good times and bad and across socioeconomic lines, people who find better lives off the farm rarely return.
Children, teenagers and young adults are generally less productive than middle-aged workers with more experience, especially as employment in services rises and physical labor in agriculture and industry declines.
However, the numbers of engagement of labor in agriculture sector was also reduced.
At least 80% of U.S. workers labored in agriculture at the beginning of the 19th century, but by the middle of that century, the number was down to 50%.
While some braceros were contracted to work on the railroads and in other industries, the majority labored in agriculture.
The Han Feizi describes these landowners' use of hired labor in agriculture, a practice dating back to the 3rd century BC, possibly earlier.
In Tarn-et-Garonne, xenophobia creeps up in conversations about the local North African community, made up of the descendants of 1950s migrants who provided labor in agriculture, picking fruit.
Brancel, who served as a Republican lawmaker and state-level director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said politicians in Washington, D.C., need to stop arguing immigration policy "at the extremes" and adopt law changes that recognize the need for immigrant labor in agriculture while still limiting the people who can qualify for citizenship.
