laborers

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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

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

For decades, agricultural laborers had lived in substandard housing and were paid terrible wages.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Most of them worked as day laborers in the giant factory farms that surrounded the city.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline