laborers
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The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
When the 380-foot steamship Great Republic—one of the world’s largest passenger vessels at the time—arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong, 1,300 blue-coated Chinese laborers filed down its gangplank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He openly condemned the rich for their oppression of the poor and inspired an alliance of white and black bond laborers, as well as slaves, who demanded an end to their servitude.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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