work gang
Group doing tasks
A work gang is a group of laborers assigned to a task together, especially manual or outdoor work.
The term often implies organized, supervised labor—historically associated with prison chain gangs or enslaved people forced to work in groups: The work gang cleared brush along the railroad tracks.
In neutral contexts, it simply means a crew working together on a job.
- convictsImprisoned felons
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- chain linkConnected metal loop
- hard laborStrenuous punitive work
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
crew · team · group · forced labor · rock pile · indentured labor · penal colony · collaboration · confinement · slavery · labor camp · quarrying · navvies · shift · brigade · supervision · squad · troop
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, hired hands
- workplace groupsteam, staff, crew, department, division
- prison laborprison labor, convict labor, penal labor, hard labor, convict leasing