Definition of Laborer

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Definition of Laborer
	Laborer One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan. Related Definitions: An, Artisan, As, Distinguished, Does, From, In, Occupation, Of, One, Person, Rather, Skill, Strength, Than, That, Toilsome, Who, Work

Laborer Quotations

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil Gibran

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
Leland Stanford

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
William Graham Sumner

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer

I class myself as a manual laborer.
Theodore White

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
John Bates Clark

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
John Bates Clark

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca H. Davis

Laborer Translations

laborer in Afrikaans is werker
laborer in Danish is arbejder
laborer in Dutch is werkkracht, arbeider, werker, werkman
laborer in French is ouvrier
laborer in German is Arbeiter {m}
laborer in Portuguese is obreiro
laborer in Spanish is obrero

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