The ties between low social status and menial labor allow for the exploitation of migrant workers, which translate into lower wages to that of native born Americans or longer hours of work. This is what makes migrant labor more appealing and more sought after by employers over low skilled American labor because while Americans are more likely to advocate for themselves and have their rights recognized and protected from employers’ exploitation, migrants don’t have these rights and protections. It is even less plausible that high school and college students who have a higher education than most migrants to want to compete or obtain migrants jobs where as these students could obtain a higher skilled and status job. Even if so, Americans would still feel compelled to have higher wages than that of their migrant counterparts since they would see themselves of higher social status, but if an employer were to raise the wages of these low-skilled jobs structural inflation would occur. Employers would have to raise each group’s wage in the structural hierarchy and the cheap labor once provided by “the abundance of low wage labor” would no longer be an option which could compel employers to eradicate human labor as a whole. Instead more farmers might look at the possibility of mechanizing labor, as a Yuma County farmer in Arizona concludes when he answered,” Such technology exists, but it is not used because of the abundance of low-wage laborers”. The likelihood of Americans taking on these laborious jobs added to the fact of the low social status it places on them become even more in questioned
The ties between low social status and menial labor allow for the exploitation of migrant workers, which translate into lower wages to that of native born Americans or longer hours of work. This is what makes migrant labor more appealing and more sought after by employers over low skilled American labor because while Americans are more likely to advocate for themselves and have their rights recognized and protected from employers’ exploitation, migrants don’t have these rights and protections. It is even less plausible that high school and college students who have a higher education than most migrants to want to compete or obtain migrants jobs where as these students could obtain a higher skilled and status job. Even if so, Americans would still feel compelled to have higher wages than that of their migrant counterparts since they would see themselves of higher social status, but if an employer were to raise the wages of these low-skilled jobs structural inflation would occur. Employers would have to raise each group’s wage in the structural hierarchy and the cheap labor once provided by “the abundance of low wage labor” would no longer be an option which could compel employers to eradicate human labor as a whole. Instead more farmers might look at the possibility of mechanizing labor, as a Yuma County farmer in Arizona concludes when he answered,” Such technology exists, but it is not used because of the abundance of low-wage laborers”. The likelihood of Americans taking on these laborious jobs added to the fact of the low social status it places on them become even more in questioned