Day labor

A day laborer (also day laborers, Tagner [ hist ] ) is someone who has no permanent job, but his labor power as a rule always to offer short term for new employers. The name comes from the fact that the day laborers are employed only on a daily basis.

Day laborers in Germany

Day laborers had no particular profession in general or could exercise no more professional. Therefore, they offered their labor. Of these, yet one was able to live more bad than good, but certainly earn a modest living. Day laborers were thus far down in the social stratification.

Even in the earliest times were day laborers (also husbandman, plural: husbandmen called ) in agriculture used to intercept peak work. In a medieval town four percent of the population were at least attributable to the day laborers. Day laborers were to the 20th century, an integral part of working life. In rural areas, day laborers were typically used for road or road construction and other community projects. But you could be well employed in seasonal peak in agricultural work (harvesting, threshing, etc.).

As Instleute ( partly until 1945) in the north and north-eastern Germany salaried laborers were called before the First World War, which still received a teaching load in addition to the salary. The Instmann had often to provide at his own expense a troop laborers, ( son or wife with appropriate additional remuneration, permanent or seasonal ).

At the World Exhibition in London in 1851 published new " agricultural tools", including the steam threshers in Germany found their way ever since.

This meant that the Getreidedrusch could be done in a few weeks. Previously they had threshed the grain harvest with the flail, which took about 30 weeks from late September to early May. The Gutstagelöhner received from the threshing part of threshed grain, and had a permanent employment through the winter. With the thresher winter they were unemployed or underemployed and had at other employment to accept a lower cash wage.

In Germany, we now speak generally of seasonal workers or short-term employees. These often come from Eastern Europe and usually lead harvesting (strawberries, asparagus, vegetables, wine, apples and berries) from. In Germany there are, according to the Federal Statistical Office about 62 million people between 18 and 64 years, of which about 65 percent of their livelihood relate mainly from employment. According to the Research Institute for Labour Nuremberg about a million people work as day laborers.

In a narrower sense unemployed people today are so often referred to, who are looking to ID a job opportunity in job boards for emergency placements in terms of additional earnings for one or a few days.