laborers

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"He should resign, damn it!" shouted the crowd of farmers, laborers, miners, transport workers and teachers who brought traffic to a halt on the streets of the Andean city.

From Barron's • May 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

“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

The measure, added by board members Kelly Gonez and Rocio Rivas, contains other significant provisions, including renaming César Chávez Day as “Farmworkers Day” to honor the contributions of those laborers in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

With the rise of the Populist Party in 1892, farmers and laborers formed the first mass multiracial coalition in the country’s history.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson