Noun
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Source: WordNetCapitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. David Ricardo
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers. Flora Thompson
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. William Cobbett
I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour. William Stanley Jevons
The labourer is worthy of his hire. English Proverb