Laborer

Someone who works, usually at some manual labor.

"His poor clothes piled in the sad attic of Frisco joyous hamburg-sizzling suppertime dusks of summer and manual labor; good Cody; a man who works is good, this is a maxim among the old people and one that you can't gainsay--and the book, the book, it's got a 1935 date on it, what is it doing, like that old green jalopy hungup in this attic, this town so far from its cra-- "But in the afternoon, especially late, around four, how the red sun illuminates these dusty objects of Cody's life, how mutely and yet eloquently they lie there, unattended, left and thrown there, still-life geometrical images of Cody's poor attempt to stay alive and strong beneath the skies of catastrophe."

Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody (1951).