common labor

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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

It will result, as sure as you live, in this Congress' going down in history as the one which established the dollar-a-day standard rate for common labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

If colliers, therefore, commonly earn double and triple the wages of common labor, it ought not to seem unreasonable that coal-heavers should sometimes earn four or five times those wages.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart