The Collaborative International Dictionary
Workfolk
Workfolk \Work"folk`\, n. People that labor.
Wiktionary
workfolk
n. People who labour.
Usage examples of "workfolk".
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.