labourers

China uses the hukou system [2] to regulate the influx of unskilled labourers into more prosperous regions.

Interesting historical fact is that initial tensions over marijuana came about because slaves, and later Mexican labourers were frequent users.

Try that as an illegal in the US (over 80% of minimum wage labourers!).

If they have labourers, they're 5-10 years away from an end to their problem.

They're not artists and don't think of themselves as artists, they skilled labourers.

I'm not really sure what this has to do with street sweepers, shop workers, manual labourers, or military personnel?

We just don't have that other large employer to take up the slack as when manufacturing absorbed and made use of former farm labourers.

As we drove between towns, we would pass people on foot who were clearly agricultural labourers.

Today they are looked down upon as labourers, wage earners whose pay is a function of their skill and the number of hours worked.

If they have organized labourers, they're 5-10 years away from their end.

If Cambodian labourers unionize and become more expensive, the business could easily move to the next third-world country, leaving them economically worse off than before.

The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace the artisans with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work.

Somewhat off-topic anecdote on this: my father in law designed a very rough draft of "blueprints" for his parents new house in rural China (Xinjiang) using MS Paint, local labourers built it in a few months and it's still standing 10 years later!

To the point where the majority of university students would never consider dating someone who went to the army But they would never consider dating street sweepers or shop workers or manual labourers either, or anyone else they see as beneath their social status as "university students", despite relying on those people every single day of their lives.

Labourers must be coerced into labouring; if they are able to provide for themselves they will, and this is a rational choice.