noun. One who labors or works with body or mind, or both; specifically, one who is engaged in some toilsome physical occupation; in a more restricted sense, one who performs work which requires little skill or special training, as distinguished from a skilled workman; in the narrowest sense, such an unskilled workman engaged in labor other than that of a domestic servant, particularly in husbandry.

noun. One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

noun. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

noun. someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

"It may mean -- I hope so -- that they are going to provide a level of the wages between the so-called brain worker and the manual worker, for in Russia today, the laborer is the privileged class-the sort of "nouveau riche" of today, whereas the brain worker does not receive nearly so many privileges."

artisan  

laborist  

labor  labour  labourer  

working person  workingman  workman  

Gipsy  Gypsy  agricultural laborer  agricultural labourer  bracero  

apprentice  artificer  artisan  businessman  carpenter  

blue-collar worker  bourgeoisie  breadwinner  casual  casual laborer