obrero

adj. working, laboring

n. worker, laborer; man

= factory worker, worker, workman [workmen, -pl.], factory hand, proletarian, working person, industrial worker.
Ex: To overcome these, libraries should remember that aesthetic education is an essential part of the education of workers; particular attention should be paid to work with youth, factory and agricultural workers.
Ex: At our library in Minnesota we have clearly identified material that deals with mudpies, leprechauns, senior power, red power, the Chinese New Year, prisoners' rights, and workers' control.
Ex: Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
Ex: Until the mid nineteen hundreds, this community presented an almost feudal pattern of wealthy merchants and factory hands, with several gradations between these extremes.
Ex: Factory libraries were important in the development of a proletarian readership.
Ex: What can one, middle class, working person do to help (in some small way) work towards a more peaceful world?.
Ex: However, even as late as 1939, male industrial workers, skilled and unskilled, made up only 5% of the library cardholders in an ordinary sized town.
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* abeja obrera = worker bee.
* despedir obreros = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
* obrero agrícola = agricultural labourer.
* obrero de la casa = stab hand.
* obrero de la construcción = construction worker.
* obrero manual = blue collar worker.
* obrero metalúrgico = metalworker.
* obrero no manual = white collar worker.
* obrero portuario = longshoreman [longshoremen, -pl.].
* obreros = shop floor, working people.
* obrero sacador = vatman [vatmen, -pl.].
* relativo a los obreros no manuales = white collar.