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a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborers
Many of Miami-Dade’s outdoor laborers, including landscapers, farmhands and construction workers, are foreign-born.
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Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Almost 60% of Mexican laborers are considered informal wage-earners who don’t have access to social security or employment benefits like paid leave.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
Landlords could extract these high rents because their tenants, in turn, made money by subletting little parcels of land, often as small as a quarter of an acre, to laborers who had none of their own.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Many travelled long distances to earn money as seasonal migrant laborers on farms in England and Scotland, and Irish immigrants were integrating themselves into the capitalist money economy in the mills of Massachusetts and the factories of New York.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
On paper, these items weren’t all waste—some of them technically still worked—but most were dying or dead, and the laborers of Agbogbloshie dutifully wielded hammers to strip old televisions and smartphones of precious metals and incinerate the rest.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Towns in Indonesia are buried in millions of pounds of single-use plastics; communities across India and Bangladesh are populated by armies of migrant laborers tasked with dismantling cruise liners and oil tankers by hand.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Many of those rescued were migrant laborers constructing a highway in the remote region, according to local authorities.
—Kathleen Magramo and Esha Mitra, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.
—Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Almost 60% of Mexican laborers are considered informal wage-earners who don’t have access to social security or employment benefits like paid leave.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
Landlords could extract these high rents because their tenants, in turn, made money by subletting little parcels of land, often as small as a quarter of an acre, to laborers who had none of their own.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Many travelled long distances to earn money as seasonal migrant laborers on farms in England and Scotland, and Irish immigrants were integrating themselves into the capitalist money economy in the mills of Massachusetts and the factories of New York.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
On paper, these items weren’t all waste—some of them technically still worked—but most were dying or dead, and the laborers of Agbogbloshie dutifully wielded hammers to strip old televisions and smartphones of precious metals and incinerate the rest.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Towns in Indonesia are buried in millions of pounds of single-use plastics; communities across India and Bangladesh are populated by armies of migrant laborers tasked with dismantling cruise liners and oil tankers by hand.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Many of those rescued were migrant laborers constructing a highway in the remote region, according to local authorities.
—Kathleen Magramo and Esha Mitra, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.
—Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Laborers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborers. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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