rural laborer

Countryside manual worker

A rural laborer is a worker who performs physical work in the countryside, typically on farms or agricultural land.

The term covers farmhands, field workers, migrant pickers, and others who work the land for wages rather than owning it: Rural laborers harvested the cotton crop.

The phrase often implies low-wage, seasonal, or manual work.

Related

harvester · sharecropper · tenant · picker · hired help · toil · sweat · hard work · callused · sunburned · hoe · plow · sun up · dawn · backbreaking · wages · seasonal · dusty

Opposites
geographic setting

rural laborerfactory worker

Manufacturing floor employee

industrial worker · office worker · dockworker · city dweller · sweatshop worker

type of work

rural laboreroffice worker

Indoor professional employee

white-collar worker · professional · knowledge worker · bureaucrat · executive

class and economic position

rural laborerlandowner

One possessing real estate

landed gentry · lord of the manor · plantation owner · aristocrat · estate owner

Family

rural, rurally, rurality, labor, laborer, labored, laboring, labors, labour

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G