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  • noun Plural form of laborer.

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Examples

  • Recently Kautsky wrote that the Socialist Party, besides occupying itself with the interests of the manual laborers, "must also concern itself with all social questions, but that _its attitude on these questions is determined by the interests of the manual laborers_."

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Then he'd pay his help — what we called the laborers, see — then.

    Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

  • Part of the reason sweatshops exist and attract laborers is that life on the garbage heap is even worse, as is the life of a third world subsistence farmer.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No” 2009

  • Page 273: The proportion, therefore, between the productive and unproductive hands, depends very much in every country upon the proportion between that part of the annual produce which, as soon as it becomes either from the ground or from the hands of the productive laborers, is destined for constituting a revenue, either as rent, or as profit.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • Yes, there are unemployed people, but, most of these are semi-skilled laborers from the construction industry.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Mark Perry on US Manufacturing 2009

  • It ejects illegal laborers from the mainstream workforce, and gives the employee the ability to straighten out his dilemma by being interviewed by the Social Security agents.

    Matthew Yglesias » Immigration and Low-Wage Workers 2010

  • Page 273: The proportion, therefore, between the productive and unproductive hands, depends very much in every country upon the proportion between that part of the annual produce which, as soon as it becomes either from the ground or from the hands of the productive laborers, is destined for constituting a revenue, either as rent, or as profit.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • Some russians found new jobs in small family firms or as short-term laborers; the share of such workers rose from 1 to 12 percent of total employment between 1992 and 1999, an increase of about 6.6 million workers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Some russians found new jobs in small family firms or as short-term laborers; the share of such workers rose from 1 to 12 percent of total employment between 1992 and 1999, an increase of about 6.6 million workers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • When a canal is to be dug or a railroad put through, requiring thousands of laborers, it would be hurtful to withdraw these laborers from the constant industries.

    THE TRAMP 2010

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