In his early years, he worked as a general labourer.

The equivalent figures for manual workers other than general labourers show a reverse pattern.

The membership generally did not include general labourers, agricultural workers, colliers, spinners, foundrymen, masons and the like.

It is also useful for gardeners, cyclists, walkers, shoppers, hunters, fishers and general manual labourers.

An 18 per cent improvement in the real wages of general labourers between 1754-5 and 1788-92 has been estimated.

His mother was intelligent but not fully literate, his father at various times a gardener, general labourer and merchant's assistant.

He talked himself into jobs at Inco as a general labourer, carpenter and machinist.

In between working as a general labourer or on building sites, Easterbrook carried out petty crimes, breaking, entering and burglaries.

In 1901 the census reports him as a general labourer just before he went on to play football.

He began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.