workfolk

These workfolk, it struck him, would be easy victims of the humanoids.

He shrugged her off and tramped on around a little crowd of workfolk standing under a news holo at a tunnel intersection. "

The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk "scarce, saucy and bad" was seeking to impress no one, for he entered it in his private diary.

Few other picnickers/bathers about, and they by the look of them deeply local; no Arabic at our command beyond a naughty glossary picked up from Scheherazade, and while most Moroccan businessfolk speak French or Spanish or English, ordinary workfolk often don't.

He scrambled up dark drains, climbed a ladder in a pitch-black airshaft, waited again for space on a powered upway that lifted him at last through warehouse and factory levels where excited workfolk were pouring out of the gates, elated that they would never be returning to their toil.

In front of us was a broad, grassy course marked off with garlanded finger-posts, and in this space rallies of workfolk were taking part in all manner of games under the eyes of a great concourse of spectators, doing the Martians' pleasures for them as they did their labours.