What is "strugglers"

Usage examples of "strugglers".

It is the question that concerns this world before all others, that occupies alike the patient workfolk who have yet their home unbroken, the strugglers foredoomed to loss of such scant needments as the summer gifted them withal, the hopeless and the self-abandoned and the lurking creatures of prey.

The two men who had pushed the strugglers with their feet, were assailed with abuse by the sailors, who had become reconciled.

I doubt, however, whether it is more dishonest, and whether struggles were not made quite as disgraceful to the strugglers as anything that is done now.