laborers

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Rice farmer Rodel Malinay has shifted to an “on-call” labor system, instead of having three to five laborers working daily, and does more manual labor himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

For decades, agricultural laborers had lived in substandard housing and were paid terrible wages.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

In a neighborhood housing migrant laborers in Qatar, people ran screaming as a projectile fell from the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Josie could hear the traffic on the street outside—lots of early-morning laborers like her dad were already headed off to work.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix