laborer
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thumb|Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. A laborer (or labourer) 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 railw
Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Laborer
- Occupation.image
- Lone Driller’s Water Break (Kilgore, Texas).jpg
- Occupation.caption
- A ''Lone Driller's Water Break'' drinking from a battered pan one of the many Laborers during the Texas Oil Boom in Kilgore, Texas, 1939
- Occupation.type
- Manual labor
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Construction, Manufacturing
- Occupation.employment_field
- Construction site, Yard Manufacturing
- Occupation.related_occupation
- Construction worker
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- Lone Driller’s Water Break (Kilgore, Texas).jpg
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- female form of label
- treballadora de la construcció
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- Labour
- male form of label
- Aarbechter
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thumb|Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. A laborer (or labourer) 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 tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to tradesmen as well such as operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes that a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the introduction of field technologies, the laborers have been quick to adapt to the use of this technology as being laborers' workforce.
==Tools and equipment== The following tools are considered a minimum for a laborer to keep with them: hammer, pliers w/ side-cutters, utility knife, tape measure, locking pliers, crescent wrench, screwdriver, margin trowel, carpenter's pencil or soapstone, tool belt and one pouch (bag). In addition: a five gallon bucket with additional tools, toolbelt suspenders, water jug and lunchbox are recommended.