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Definition of Laborers

1. laborer [n] - See also: laborer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laborers

Literary usage of Laborers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"More than 2,ooo,ooo were tenants,1 and 4,7oo,ooo were laborers working for owners ... Of the 4,7oo,ooo laborers, 2,1oo,ooo were members of the family of the ..."

2. Annual Report (1905)
"¡International Hod Carriers and Building laborers' Union of America No. 135. ... 71 656 Richmond laborers' Union Protective Society No. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It is important to observe that this statute expressly declares that all this was to be done "for the purpose of properly identifying Chinese laborers who ..."

4. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"Since the percentage of foreign-born among agricultural laborers is much smaller than among other unskilled laborers,* the underestimate of the numerical ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The purpose of this act is to protect materialmen and laborers for wort done ... Under it the liability of the contractor to his materialmen aud laborers is ..."

6. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1866)
"COMPENSATION OF laborers IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. The act of Congress, ... If these laws, prescribing the payment of annual sala- laborers ..."

7. A History of the Greenbacks: With Special Reference to the Economic by Wesley Clair Mitchell (1903)
"TABLE XXXIX COMPARISON OF RELATIVE WAGES OF FARM laborers AND OTHER WADE-EARNERS From this comparison it appears that farm laborers received an advance in ..."

8. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Wealth is unequally distributed, and the immense majority of the laborers have not the wherewithal to support themselves during the prolonged period. ..."

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