0 a person who does unskilled physical work, especially outside -- (尤指在户外的)体力劳动者,劳工,工人
a farm labourer 农场工人
It should be stressed that the labour force was structured around households and not around individual labourers.
In the building and craft trades it was unusual to find labourers earning less than 3d per day.
These provided employment to large numbers of the city population-craftsmen, labourers, artists and others.
Agriculture appears, therefore, to have been carried out with the assistance of thirteen labourers and only three servants in husbandry.
According to the bill, all land belonging to the state that was unoccupied or unregistered would be turned into smallholdings and given to agricultural labourers.
This physicality is often devalued, however, and on many projects skilled professionals can be regarded as little more than unskilled labourers.
In some cases the employment of wage labourers assumed enormous proportions.
It is possible that the fate of the third of migrants who were general labourers was a factor in this.