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Examples of labourer

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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.
These officeholders tended to belong to a small group of labourers who are marked out by their visibility in the records.
Although the legal possibility to enter into written contracts existed, practically all immigrant labourers had merely verbal contracts with their employers.
Perhaps most noteworthy was the scarcity of farm labourers among the lieutenants, captains, and commandants who ran the movement in the parishes.
Initially, at least, the growth of the smallholder population only exacerbated a situation of increasing demand for labourers and labour mobility.
He said that the majority of them were miners and labourers, but the youngest of them were quarriers.
Traction was provided by two oxen which were managed by two labourers.
This largely reflects the status difference between agricultural and general labourers and supports the case that this reflects rural perceptions in the late nineteenth century.
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labourer

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agricultural labourer
His lasting invalidity made him give up working as agriculturallabourer.
contract labourer
After 1862 landlords could contract labourers without going through the rural magistrate, but the decision could be costly.
indentured labourer
In the first place, the recruitment of indentured labourers was drawing to a close.
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