Mary Kom

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

Indian Athlete

Charles M. Schwab

If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.

American Businessman

Sonita Alizadeh

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

Afghani Musician

Kevin de Leon

Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.

American Politician

Om Puri

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

Indian Actor

Miguel Syjuco

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

Filipino Writer

Albert Bushnell Hart

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

American Historian

Cliff Curtis

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

New Zealander Actor

Marguerite Duras

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

French Novelist

Karl Marx

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

German Philosopher

The term 'labourer' highlights the physical aspect of the work, often strenuous.

Physical Work

'Labourer' usually refers to someone who works in an outdoor environment, like construction sites.

Outdoor Setting

Being a labourer is often associated with receiving less pay compared to some other professions.

Low Wage

 And what surprised me as well was that as much as this is based on the most sophisticated technology, as much as this is an incredibly new thing, the physical process itself has been around for a long time, and the culture is the same. You see the local laborers. You see the English engineer giving directions in the background. And more importantly,

Andrew Blum: What is the...

 so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me.

What will future jobs...

 so the plants they work with are in countries with little to no worker protection laws. As a result, many laborers earn below the living wage, and are exposed to harmful chemicals, like toxic glue fumes. When manufacturing is complete, the shoes are packaged and transported to stores around the globe.

The wildly complex...

 akin to what we have in an industrialized world today so the breaking down of the building allows them to have lots of work gangs with not huge skills they just have to simply build enough in this way the thousands of laborers working on the Colosseum could be left to build their section

Building Rome's...

 and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement

The dark history of...

 When day laborers try to confront employers for their unpaid wages, they may stop answering the phone, change their numbers or even threaten the worker. Because day laborers work informally and off the books, some employers, they claim to have never hired the worker at all.

Rebecca Galemba: How...

 We organized the worldwide marches against child labor and that has also resulted in a new international convention to protect the children who are in the worst forms. And the concrete result was that the number of child laborers globally

Kailash Satyarthi: How...

 imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws. And the next few centuries would provide plenty of material. Industrial technology that promised to free laborers

How to recognize a...

 So who are these people that work silently in hotels, restaurants, as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live?

What if the poor were...

 memory, reason, and imagination. He also emphasized the importance of commerce, technology, and crafts, poking around shops to study the tools and techniques of Parisian laborers.