common labor

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And European officials have been advocating a “buyers’ club” for critical minerals with the G7 countries, which could establish certain common labor and environmental standards for suppliers.

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

With the barest rudiments of education, he supported himself by common labor and fiercely drove himself upward, splitting rails first, then keeping store, and finally reading law.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

These are El Greco’s “Vincenzo Anastagi,” an early portrait of an Italian war hero from the 1570s, and “The Forge,” the most developed of Goya’s late dark paintings, an hommage to common labor, from 1815-20.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2010

When he got home from the hospital, he was a broken man, still powerful but a bit simpleminded, good only for tending sheep and common labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

A collier working by the piece is supposed, at Newcastle, to earn commonly about double, and in many parts of Scotland about three times, the wages of common labor.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart