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

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

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Garza’s genre-bending work ultimately pays homage to the too-often invisible laborers who cultivate the land and build the cities on both sides of the border.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

But there was barely enough work for the adult laborers, and no one was giving it up.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom