noun
definition
One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.
Examples of laborers in a Sentence
It proved impossible to carry out the scheme; the laborers were too many and too cunning to be crushed.
I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.
In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.
In June and July 1907 there were again disturbances among the agricultural laborers of Ferrala and Rovigo, and a widespread strike organized by the leg/fe throughout those provinces caused very serious losses to all concerned.
In some cases there was foundation for the laborers claims, but unfortunately the movement got into the hands of professional agitators and common swindlers, and the leader, a certain Giampetruzzi, who at one time seemed to be a worthy colleague of Marcelin Albert, was afterwards tried and condemned for having cheated his own followers.
Conflicts occurred between the strikers and the independent laborers and the police; the trouble spread to the city of Parma, where violent scenes occurred when the labor exchange was occupied by the troops, and many soldiers and policemen, whose behaviour as usual was exemplary throughout, were seriously wounded.
There was a very slight decline in the number of child laborers both in city and country, their total number in 1905 being 159,899 and in 1900 161,276.
In some respects this expectation was not deceived; the years that followed 1360 seem to have been prosperous at home, despite the continued friction arising from the Statute of Laborers.
In the districts which took arms two main causes of insurrection may be differentiated; the first and the most widespread was the discontent of the rural population with the landowners and the Statute of Laborers.
In the countryside the insurrection was accompanied by wholesale burnings of manor-rolls, the hunting down of unpopular bailiffs and landlords, and a special crusade against the commissioners of the poll-tax and the justices who had been enforcing the Statute of Laborers.
On the meeting of the new parliament Lord Salisburys government was defeated on an amendment to the address, demanding facilities for agricultural laborers to obtain small holdings for gardens and pasturethe policy, in short, which was described as three acres and a cow.
The peasants, no less than the industrial laborers, suffered from the absence of any capital laid by, which alone could have enabled them to improve their land or to face a time of bad harvests.
The first a near post left foot bender from the Laborers skipper.
The machine turns up the roots and the laborers, in a line, bend down to fill their wicker creels (baskets ).
A small army of laborers with horse-drawn carts built a dam, which extended 175 feet into the solid rock.
However, only common laborers wore denim at all.
The accommodation was a wooden bunk in the back of a lorry, shared with two other clowns and four rather grimy tattooed laborers.
It also imperils tens of thousands of farmers, field hands and migrant laborers.
Matthew 20 records a parable Jesus told about a householder who hired laborers for his vineyard.
By contrast, private firms remained adamant in their dismissal of claims by former forced laborers.
This is especially true with respect to the struggling members of society, including laborers, farmers, fishermen, and the unemployed.
There were nine farmers employing 85 laborers and thirty eight small holders, employing no laborers.
He agreed to pay the laborers a penny for the day, which were evidently the regular wages for the ordinary laborer.
Also present are between 50 and 100 Batwa families who live as landless laborers following their eviction from the forest in 1964.
With respect to forced laborers, we have a much larger number.
Others are farmers, fishermen, and unskilled laborers.
Wages were no better than those offered to agricultural laborers.
How many foreign laborers are working in Taiwan, and what rights and protection do they have?
Siemens was charged with extensive use of slave laborers.
Most child laborers can be considered to be wage slaves.
He became parish Surveyor, and when required, measured the land for farmers and laborers in Wrangle and the adjacent parishes.
Then the big work started, with several gangs of laborers digging deep pits at timed intervals.
They are most common in the north and centre, a circumstance which shows them to be promoted less by the more backward and more ignorant peasants than by the better-educated laborers of Lombardy and Emilia, among whom, Socialist organizations are widespread.
Gardeners and farm laborers convey spores from one bed or field to another; carted soil, manure, &c., may abound in spores of Smuts, Fusarium, Polyporei and in sclerotia; and articles through the post and so forth often carry infective spores.
I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a staple production of the South.
On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers--this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.
On several of the hills are quarries of slate of good quality, the working of which affords remunerative employment to many laborers.
The modern laborers may be free, but they may also still have something of the servile mentality.
You are linked to the Christian children in Colombia who have seen their parents murdered and been taken captive as slave laborers and soldiers.
Landowners are eligible for compensation, but there is no relief for thousands of poor landless laborers who tilled the earth.
Surely laborers in the south did not really have to eat wheaten bread.
I avoid spending money at companies that practice unethical business methods, such as employing child laborers.
It could be argued that laborers have less incentive to work hard when under a rule of communism.
Trying to save money by using day laborers or under the table workers often leads to disaster and expensive home repair costs.
Although this seems simple, you'll have to evaluate your cutting and layout strategies relative to how many laborers will be working on the project.
All men, except for laborers, wore three-piece suits every day.
The hats were so completely associated with laborers that anyone above that class preferred to keep a wide berth.
Laborers often wore wooden shoes to protect their feet.
It ensures a healthier baby, a healthier environment, and healthier laborers.
According to Nepal Vista, the primary sources of income in the country are, "tourism, agriculture, and Nepalese laborers working in foreign countries."