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By the 1870s, chinese workers composed what percentage of california's agricultural work force?

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They made up 45 percent of all farm laborers. These laborers helped grow the fruit and vegetables in this area. These workers either were farm owners, worked land that they rented for cash, sharecroppers, or worked as hired farm laborers.
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