Day Laborers

[FootsoreFederal]

Hey everyone,
Does anyone have any information regarding day laborers? What they did, for instance. From the little I've been able to find it seems like a fairly common job and I cannot find anything about them anywhere.

Thanks, I appreciate any help.

[Alamo Guard]

Re: Day Laborers

In the days before such things as backhoes, graders, earthmovers these were them. Building a house and need a cellar dug, call em. They worked for daily wages on jobs requiring brute muscle power.
The profession of my great-grandfather before the war was such. After three years of warfare he was a broken man health wise and could never return to his profession as a day laborer.