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The job title that built civilization and gets thanked with a minimum wage.
means A person who does physical, often unskilled or manual work for wages, typically on building sites, farms, or other manual trades.
from From Old French 'labourer' (to work, toil, till the soil), from Latin 'laborare,' meaning to work or labor, itself rooted in 'labor' — meaning toil, hardship, exertion, even suffering. The Latin root carried a real sense of strain and burden, not just activity, so the word has always meant work that costs the body something.
- etymology
- from Latin labor, meaning toil or suffering
- legal status
- often means no contract, no sick pay
- irony
- builds the buildings it can't afford to live in