road gang
Highway labor team
A road gang is a group of prisoners assigned to outdoor labor, especially maintaining or building roads.
The term evokes chain gangs and convict labor in the American South: He spent six months on a road gang in Georgia.
More generally, it can refer to any crew working on road construction or repair.
- convict leasingHiring out imprisoned people
- crewWorking team aboard
- roadworkerHighway maintenance laborer
- work partyOrganized group performing labor
- roadmenderOne who repairs streets
manual labor · gravel · highway · penal labor · tar · public works · ball and chain · orange jumpsuit · work detail · forced labor · workforce · flagman · asphalt · laborers · pavement · foreman · contractor · team
- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
- Roman RoadsAppian Way, Watling Street, milestone, Via Egnatia
road gangoffice workers
Indoor professional employees
white-collar workers · desk jockeys · corporate employees · pencil pushers · paper pushers
road gangvolunteer crew
Workers serving without compensation
independent contractors · salaried employees · country club set · leisure class · retirees
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