laborers

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Above the public library’s checkout desk is a mural of shirtless laborers toiling among smokestacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

His skepticism of “improved means to an unimproved end”—which essentially alleged that, as life got faster, it didn’t necessarily get better—resonated with laborers watching their jobs vanish in the face of industrialization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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

The measure, added by board members Kelly Gonez and Rocio Rivas, contains other significant provisions, including renaming César Chávez Day as “Farmworkers Day” to honor the contributions of those laborers in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Men of consequence and means, who had made their fortunes exploiting laborers in their factories, drifted along next to those who had lost their lives toiling on those same factory machines.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland