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day labourer
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day labourer
n
(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
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Noun1.day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
day laborer
laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor


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Amidst these changing labour markets, there has always been a small contingent of casual or day labourers, forever facing the demands of change.
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in ... by Allinson, Gary D. / Pacific Affairs
Much maligned as the lowest form of industrial worker, day labourers gained significant power, especially during the last eighteen months of the war when the chronic shortage of skilled workers created intense demand for their services.
Need, greed, and protest in Japan's black narket, 1938-1949 by Griffiths, Owen / Journal of Social History
With the exception of a small middle sector of entrepreneurs, the group was composed chiefly of day labourers, carters, and a transient labour force employed in public works in the city and the province.
The Irish worker IN VICTORIAN TORONTO PART 1 by NICOLSON, MURRAY / Catholic Insight
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