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

Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council announced they would abandon the holiday honoring Chavez’s birthday and instead rename it “Farm Workers Day” to honor laborers who toil in the fields.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 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

On Thursday, some black laborers returned to work.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield