laborers

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Laborers trained to do jobs like sewing and woodworking were left behind after companies fled overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

A lot of immigrants will flock to disaster zones in hopes of finding jobs, said Pablo Alvarado, co-executive director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

In 2021, the university dedicated a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers in a prominent location on what U-Va. calls the Grounds.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Laborers in Japan’s silk industry were often scalded while boiling silkworm cocoons.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Laborers in the Cripple Creek mining district would not organize and win their rights for another generation.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell