labourer

Let us investigate the way of living of a labourer from a parish in the Bradfield Poor

THE HUNGER WAIL 2010

It hearks back to the biblical assertion that the labourer is worthy of his hire – and I have no problem with that.

The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

A Sikh labourer is headed back home to the United Kingdom after he was sent off the job site in Alberta for refusing to shave his beard.

Safety Laws Only Apply To Majorities, Silly « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

A Sikh labourer is headed back home to the United Kingdom after he was sent off the job site in Alberta for refusing to shave his beard.

2008 July 10 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

The lot of the Essex farm labourer is as bad as it can be.

The Full Brazilian Newmania 2008

Whereas on this continent the unskilled labourer is paid fifty to sixty percent of the wages of skilled labour, in South Africa his wages are less than twenty per cent of that of skilled labour.

A Canadian Looks at South Africa 1956

But they had little money to spare, and hence, at the beginning of the work, Kalman hit upon the device of bartering coal for labour, two days 'work in the mine entitling a labourer to a load of coal.

The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Ralph Connor 1898

In all cases of forced labour under the present régime, however, it seems that the labourer is paid, though very insufficiently, for his unwilling toil; and that his captivity only lasts so long as the work for which he has been pressed remains in progress.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

The whole family party and any chance visitors will not be too many for the work, and, if each labourer is provided with a cast-iron back with a hinge in it, so much the better.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

The labourer is worthy of his reward -- or "hire"; quoted from Lu 10: 7, whereas Mt 10: 10 has "his meat," or "food."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871