Definition of "workfolk" [work•folk]

• Laborers, especially farm workers. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Indeed, have the threats not been but too well realised and are not great masses of the workfolk wholly homeless."
• "In old times there were bailiffs to look after the workfolk, foremen to look after the tradesmen, a building-steward to look after the foremen, a land-steward to look after the building-steward, and a dashing grand agent to look after the land-steward: fine times they had then, I assure ye."
• "My Republican workfolk were mostly swayed by their fear and assumption that Bush=fiscal responsibility seems a little shady, if you ask me; they just don't think the social issues are as important."