But the labourer is often so desperate for a loan, without other sources of credit, that there is little real choice involved.
The unemployed labourer did not give evidence but the jury heard a tape recording of his interview with police in which he claimed the woman had been a willing partner.
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The former labourer was raised by his mother Violet, and after her death he and his brother and sister lived there until the early 1990s, when they moved to another property in the same street.
The former steel labourer said he was in discussions with Tata Steel and engineering company Mott MacDonald to fund and work on the project.
While undertaking his initial training for the ordained ministry he worked at steelworks in Consett, Co Durham, as a labourer in the coke ovens.
Peter Mumme was a labourer on a big collective farm near the border.
Alongside his day job as a labourer, he honed his craft on the northern club circuit, eventually making comedy his main career by 1962.
Mr Mehdi, a former steel labourer, said he had been working on the project for a number of years.
With no formal education, he busied himself as a sharecropper and day-labourer, working on railways and in mines until the Depression hit.
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The state pension begins at 65, but after a day labourer turns 55, says Takao Yamauchi, who runs a local welfare centre, his chances of picking up work are slim.
According to a recent survey by the Tokyo city government, 60% of the city's homeless say their last job was as a day labourer.
After being expelled from school at the age of 14 he took on a variety of jobs, including message boy in the printing trade, apprentice electrician, apprentice baker and builder's labourer.
It appealed to the UN court in 2008 after Italy's supreme court backed a claim by a former slave labourer.
Olivia Lum, ranked 35 on the list, was born in poverty in Malaysia, and narrowly escaped a future as a child labourer.
Mr Evans, a farm labourer who mends hedges and digs ditches for a living, had been severely hit by the crisis in the countryside.
Mr Mehdi, a former steel labourer, unveiled plans for a privately-invested project titled Man of Steel, which could be twice the height of the Angel of The North in Gateshead.
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