labourer

You'd think that construction is a labourer's work.

My dad is a builder, and I've worked for him as a labourer many many times.

""If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Culturally speaking, it's seen much more like and engineer or craftsmen rather than a labourer.

Yeah, try telling a starving child labourer in Honduras or South Africa that money will not solve any of their problems.

Average men have traditionally gotten the worst/riskiest jobs such as soldier and physical labourer.

.But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt.

For example the son of a doctor will be born middle class and will maintain that status even if he becomes a wage labourer working for an employer.

And again: 'as soon as the land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce which the labourer can either raise or collect from it'.

The days when working in a factory as an unskilled labourer paid a middle class income are over, but someone still needs to install, maintain, and program the robots.

Call me naive, but I actually believe it is possible nowadays to make labour obsolete, without making the labourer obsolete.

Some money, too, is commonly given to the master..... [O]n the contrary, the labourer, while he is employed about the easier, learns the more difficult parts of his business...

It is reasonable ... [that] the wages of mechanics, artificers, and manufacturers, should be somewhat higher than those of common labourers....

I remember seeing a documentary once where a labourer said something to the effect of: "I work like a horse so that my children can work like dogs, so that their children can live like people, and their children can be free.

This supposedly free market anti-labourer rhetoric is absurd: If market participants organise as a company, they seem have every right to negotiate as a whole to get a better deal.

A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days, perhaps, in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost.

This superiority, however, is generally very small: the daily or weekly earnings of journeymen in the more common sorts of manufactures ... are, in most places, very little more than the day-wages of common labourers.

For placing every moment ofthe labourer's time and that ofhis family at thedisposal of thecapitalist for the purpose ofgreater quantity of labourIn addition to a measureof its extensionie durationlabour now acquires a measure-Karl Marx

Marx, for example, was very clear in his agitation against the kind of moronic vilification demonstrated in this text: The typical capitalist, and those aiding him, according to Marx, is no more evil than the worker he oppresses - capitalist and worker alike for the most part are trapped in the same machine, and have little choice but to stick to their roles: A capitalist that stops exploiting labour will fail, and end up a labourer by necessity himself.