common labor

Example Sentences

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And European officials have been advocating a “buyers’ club” for critical minerals with the G7 countries, which could establish certain common labor and environmental standards for suppliers.

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

With the barest rudiments of education, he supported himself by common labor and fiercely drove himself upward, splitting rails first, then keeping store, and finally reading law.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

These are El Greco’s “Vincenzo Anastagi,” an early portrait of an Italian war hero from the 1570s, and “The Forge,” the most developed of Goya’s late dark paintings, an hommage to common labor, from 1815-20.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2010

He charged that the Air Forces had failed to train enough civilian technicians, had given enlisted men of the 99th jobs of common labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Latterly recruits from the peasants and unskilled laborers sought the sections where the pioneers had located, learned the same trades, or joined the armies of common labor.

From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)