laborers

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Her father secures a farm job on land nearby, and as Robin’s family settles into the meager accommodation provided for laborers, Robin sneaks off to probe the secrets of the great house.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

He also proposes expanding guest worker programs and “shifting accountability” from workers to corporations that underpay immigrant laborers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Holland said his laborers in Texas often live far away from job sites and are getting walloped at the gas pump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

And the laborers stared at him, but dared not reply and he would not tell them anything, but he superintended them himself, so that he need not talk with Ching even of what he did.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck