People who do manual work or physical labor, often for wages; workers who perform tasks requiring bodily effort.
From Middle English 'laborer,' derived from Old French 'labour,' from Latin 'labor' meaning 'work' or 'hardship.' The word emphasizes physical exertion and has been used to describe working-class people since medieval times.
The word 'laborer' comes from Latin 'labor' meaning hardship—revealing that ancient Romans saw work itself as synonymous with difficulty, a linguistic prejudice that reflected their class system where physical work was seen as beneath citizens.
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