The word "laborer" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the word "laborer" to refer to someone who does manual or physical work, especially in an industrial or manufacturing setting. For example, "The laborers in the factory worked long hours to meet the demands of the company."
Having any job usually beats unemployment, of course, and today's factory workers are far better off than those who toiled in the nineteenth century's dark Satanic mills, but their jobs often epitomize what Karl Marx identified as the alienation of the laborer from his or her labor.
When a picture of the Mexican laborer accused of killing a San Francisco woman is put on screen, Trump said: "Look at that guy, look at what he did, killing that beautiful girl.
She said she spends most of her day cooking, washing, cleaning and fetching firewood or water for her in-laws, or trying to earn money as a day laborer in local fields.
He began as a manual laborer and became a landowner and celebrity who lived by his wits.
On May 30th, as the sun beat down on the plains of eastern Pakistan, a laborer named Muhammad Shafiq walked along the top of a dam on the Upper Jhelum Canal to begin his morning routine of clearing grass and trash that had drifted into the intake grates overnight.
"After the mobs were driven out and things subsided into some kind of order, so to speak, I decided to become a laborer, despite the fact that I could have taken a government post or even become a commissar.
Before he became an abortion-clinic bomber, Wayne Lee had worked for Rose and Fieldin two or three times as a sullen and not particularly industrious day laborer, which had led to their being interviewed in the early days of the search by an agent whose name she had forgotten.
After five or ten years, the laborer could return to India or stay and take a small plot of land.
She was unmarried, and her father was often away, working as a farm laborer.
An unskilled laborer — a valet parker, a dishwasher, a chambermaid, a waiter, a busboy — can make more money in Las Vegas than just about anywhere else.
He bought a small mine, in Salzburg, and put his unpromising youngster to work in it as a mining laborer, but only until he could find a job for him in the sales department of the Upper Austrian Elektrobau Company.
