laborer

How To Use laborer In A Sentence

• The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, —abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice. VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
• Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department. Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains
• Of course, in some sense, this is a regressive tax as poorer laborers are probably the least likely to have flexibility in setting their work schedules for the sake of avoiding the higher taxes.
• They say the system is broken and it is creating hardship for day laborers and their families.
• What better place to put our unneeded and unwanted laborers?
• He became a manual laborer and later a postal worker, a position that he retained until his retirement.
• But how little would what are commonly called the rudiments of education, add to their qualifications as laborers? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
• The mere laborer has thus no more interest in the general advance of productive power than the Cuban slave had in the advance in the price of sugar.
• This intelligence, which, at any other time, would have been received with rapturous enthusiasm, was listened to under the influence of a counterirritant already at work, with comparative calmness, and its only effect was to cause a postponement of the vote on the laborers 'bill upon the plea of the lateness of the hour, although not without strenuous opposition from the extreme right. Edmond Dantès
• Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas.