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To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025 -
At the same time, average wage earners were forced out of the new car market.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.—
Sarah Churchwell,
The New York Review of Books,
11 June 2019
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Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2021
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The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.—
Julia Turner,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2025
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Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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But, at large scales, laborers (who themselves are often poorly treated) are often paid by volume and are likely to work as quickly as possible which leads to mistreatment.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Maricopa County deputies, after getting 287(g) certified in 2007, carried out 11 immigration sweeps within five months outside a former furniture store in Phoenix that was a popular gathering spot for laborers.—
Rafael Carranza,
ProPublica,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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