Labourer
noun
A person who does hard physical work, usually outside and often for low pay.
The construction company is hiring labourers for their new project.
Often appears as...
- manual labourer
- skilled labourer
noun
A person who does hard physical work, usually outside and often for low pay.
The construction company is hiring labourers for their new project.
Often appears as...
- manual labourer
- skilled labourer
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Work
The term 'labourer' highlights the physical aspect of the work, often strenuous.
After a day of moving bricks, the labourer was exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Setting
'Labourer' usually refers to someone who works in an outdoor environment, like construction sites.
Despite the rain, the labourers continued their work.
Pro Tip 3/3Low Wage
Being a labourer is often associated with receiving less pay compared to some other professions.
The labourers at the site discussed their wages during the lunch break.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Work
The term 'labourer' highlights the physical aspect of the work, often strenuous.
After a day of moving bricks, the labourer was exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Setting
'Labourer' usually refers to someone who works in an outdoor environment, like construction sites.
Despite the rain, the labourers continued their work.
Pro Tip 3/3Low Wage
Being a labourer is often associated with receiving less pay compared to some other professions.
The labourers at the site discussed their wages during the lunch break.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Work
The term 'labourer' highlights the physical aspect of the work, often strenuous.
After a day of moving bricks, the labourer was exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Setting
'Labourer' usually refers to someone who works in an outdoor environment, like construction sites.
Despite the rain, the labourers continued their work.
Pro Tip 3/3Low Wage
Being a labourer is often associated with receiving less pay compared to some other professions.
The labourers at the site discussed their wages during the lunch break.
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
And what surprised me as well was that as much as this is based on the most sophisticated technology, as much as this is an incredibly new thing, the physical process itself has been around for a long time, and the culture is the same. You see the local laborers. You see the English engineer giving directions in the background. And more importantly,
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What will future jobs...
so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me.
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The wildly complex...
so the plants they work with are in countries with little to no worker protection laws. As a result, many laborers earn below the living wage, and are exposed to harmful chemicals, like toxic glue fumes. When manufacturing is complete, the shoes are packaged and transported to stores around the globe.
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Building Rome's...
akin to what we have in an industrialized world today so the breaking down of the building allows them to have lots of work gangs with not huge skills they just have to simply build enough in this way the thousands of laborers working on the Colosseum could be left to build their section
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The dark history of...
and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement
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Rebecca Galemba: How...
When day laborers try to confront employers for their unpaid wages, they may stop answering the phone, change their numbers or even threaten the worker. Because day laborers work informally and off the books, some employers, they claim to have never hired the worker at all.
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
We organized the worldwide marches against child labor and that has also resulted in a new international convention to protect the children who are in the worst forms. And the concrete result was that the number of child laborers globally
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How to recognize a...
imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws. And the next few centuries would provide plenty of material. Industrial technology that promised to free laborers
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What if the poor were...
So who are these people that work silently in hotels, restaurants, as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live?
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The controversial...
memory, reason, and imagination. He also emphasized the importance of commerce, technology, and crafts, poking around shops to study the tools and techniques of Parisian laborers.
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
And what surprised me as well was that as much as this is based on the most sophisticated technology, as much as this is an incredibly new thing, the physical process itself has been around for a long time, and the culture is the same. You see the local laborers. You see the English engineer giving directions in the background. And more importantly,
Video examples
What will future jobs...
so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me.
Video examples
The wildly complex...
so the plants they work with are in countries with little to no worker protection laws. As a result, many laborers earn below the living wage, and are exposed to harmful chemicals, like toxic glue fumes. When manufacturing is complete, the shoes are packaged and transported to stores around the globe.
Video examples
Building Rome's...
akin to what we have in an industrialized world today so the breaking down of the building allows them to have lots of work gangs with not huge skills they just have to simply build enough in this way the thousands of laborers working on the Colosseum could be left to build their section
Video examples
The dark history of...
and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement
Video examples
Rebecca Galemba: How...
When day laborers try to confront employers for their unpaid wages, they may stop answering the phone, change their numbers or even threaten the worker. Because day laborers work informally and off the books, some employers, they claim to have never hired the worker at all.
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
We organized the worldwide marches against child labor and that has also resulted in a new international convention to protect the children who are in the worst forms. And the concrete result was that the number of child laborers globally
Video examples
How to recognize a...
imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws. And the next few centuries would provide plenty of material. Industrial technology that promised to free laborers
Video examples
What if the poor were...
So who are these people that work silently in hotels, restaurants, as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live?
Video examples
The controversial...
memory, reason, and imagination. He also emphasized the importance of commerce, technology, and crafts, poking around shops to study the tools and techniques of Parisian laborers.
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Mary Kom
Indian Athlete
Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.
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Charles M. Schwab
American Businessman
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.
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Sonita Alizadeh
Afghani Musician
Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.
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Kevin de Leon
American Politician
Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.
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Om Puri
Indian Actor
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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Miguel Syjuco
Filipino Writer
I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
American Historian
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
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Cliff Curtis
New Zealander Actor
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
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Marguerite Duras
French Novelist
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Mary Kom
Indian Athlete
Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.
Quote examples
Charles M. Schwab
American Businessman
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.
Quote examples
Sonita Alizadeh
Afghani Musician
Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.
Quote examples
Kevin de Leon
American Politician
Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.
Quote examples
Om Puri
Indian Actor
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
Quote examples
Miguel Syjuco
Filipino Writer
I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.
Quote examples
Albert Bushnell Hart
American Historian
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Quote examples
Cliff Curtis
New Zealander Actor
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
Quote examples
Marguerite Duras
French Novelist
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Quote examples
Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Example 1 of 10
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