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factory laborer

NOUN

blue-collar worker

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blue collar

WEAK

common laborer employee factory worker hand industrial worker laborer lunch-bucket worker member of the working class nonoffice worker proletarian working stiff workingman workingwoman

NOUN

working class

Synonyms

WEAK

blue-collar workers common laborers factory laborers grassroots laboring class plebeians proles proletariat rank and file the other half unskilled laborers wage earners wage slaves workers workfolk working people working stiffs workpeople

Example Sentences

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His father, a factory laborer, had difficulty finding work during the Great Depression, and the family scraped by in what Mr. Hall later called “the slums of the north end” of the city.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2022

He would be a factory laborer for over two decades, always with an eye toward provoking his fellow workers into looking at their struggle in new ways.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2019

“It wasn't just going to a studio like a factory laborer and making pictures and going home every night,” Cohen told the Ringer last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2019

Instead, he became a factory laborer and studied photography and optics on his own, eventually organizing a photo club among the workers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2016