labourer
n.a person who does physical work, especially on a farm or a construction site. You use this word for someone who does hard manual work rather than an office job.
n.a person who performs manual or physical work, typically on a farm or in construction. Often used to distinguish those who perform unskilled or semi-skilled tasks from professionals or managers.
“The construction site is full of skilled labourers.”
“Many local labourers were hired to help finish the new bridge before the winter storm arrived.”
“While the project required the oversight of engineers, the actual physical work was carried out by a team of experienced labourers who had spent decades on similar sites.”
“His mother raised the children and sometimes worked in a supermarket; his father was a labourer.”
“At least 50 people, mostly children, have died after a boat carrying farm labourers capsized in Nigeria.”
From labour + -er.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.