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According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Tincher was now a manual laborer on one leg, but he was denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration the following year.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

My dad worked as a laborer, and we didn’t have much, but I was never hungry in my life.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

From the fourth century to the 14th—when sea travel gradually replaced overland caravans—merchants, laborers, religious leaders, and government officials from across Eurasia convened there to exchange goods and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Home Depot parking lots have been informal job sites for day laborers for decades, many of whom are immigrants and show up every morning seeking work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The fruits of Tahnoon’s push are visible in the form of a massive construction site on a sandy patch of land miles from central Abu Dhabi, where thousands of laborers are working day and night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Araujo was picking up day laborers in a historically Latino neighborhood of Houston, Texas, when agents tried to stop his vehicle as part of a “targeted enforcement operation.”

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

At the Randall plantation he continued his enterprise, joining the Sunday caravan into town with the moss sellers, penny seamstresses, and day laborers.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead