laborers
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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
His skepticism of “improved means to an unimproved end”—which essentially alleged that, as life got faster, it didn’t necessarily get better—resonated with laborers watching their jobs vanish in the face of industrialization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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
As of this writing, today’s disparity between rich and poor is as wide as the divide between Swift and his laborers one hundred years ago.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
