Laborers

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Laborers has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Daily Show (Feb 2026). Used to describe the guest's family background, illustrating upward mobility pathways that were more feasible in earlier policy environments.

A laborer is a person who works in manual labor typed within the construction industry. There is a generic factory laborer which is defined separately as a factory worker. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries employing laborers include building things such as roads, road paving, buildings, bridges, tunnels, pipelines civil and industrial, and railway tracks. Laborers work with blasting tools, hand