In the United States, the term is most commonly used to describe low-wage workers performing manual labor in the agriculture field.

Mr. Racz described Hungarian industrial workers as toiling without enthusiasm within a system whose rewards are scant.

In a famous gaffe this year he used the word "bums" to describe workers who wanted to retire.

Benson (2000) describes the social structure for cowboys and other workers on large, corporate ranches in southwestern Alberta around 1900.

Many union officials here and across the country have described such workers as a new, cheap work force that threatens the job security of union members.

There are documents describing workers returning from abroad to participate in the wars.

Human Chemistry (1914) This work describes workers as chemical elements in a well-stocked laboratory and handlers of people as chemists.

The court described workers cheated of wages, beaten and deprived of food, something that should never have occurred anywhere, much less on American territory.

"I was livid," she said, describing "workers with applications in stacked cardboard boxes."

Astonishingly, Republican leaders have been describing such workers as people who "don't pay any taxes."