labourer

How To Use labourer In A Sentence

• A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work, and travellers from the station.
• The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
• Labourers were found in the docks, railways, factories and domestic spheres, many of them employed on a casual basis.
• The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
• Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
• In particular we heard no evidence to satisfy us that the alleged subcontractors had agreed with the labourers or their gangmasters, in advance, as to the terms and conditions on which they were hired.
• With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
• The number of labourers employed has a pronounced influence on the work rate of the machines, particularly that of the smaller units with unmechanised loading. Chapter 6
• The labourers went quietly and steadily on with their work, as though it were a thing that had to be done; and when Jüchziger laid his hand on one and another of them, with the idea of hindering them by force, he soon found himself repulsed in no very gentle fashion. The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
• His working-class origins and his experience as a manual labourer allowed him to bring a practical understanding of the industrial world to his studies. Times, Sunday Times