is a specific kind of: working man, working person, workingman, workman.

is a broader term that covers: agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer | bracero | cleaner | day laborer, day labourer | digger | dishwasher | drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon | gandy dancer | gravedigger | hewer | hand, hired hand, hired man | hod carrier, hodman | gipsy, gypsy, itinerant | faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman | miner, mineworker | mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner | platelayer, tracklayer | porter | rail-splitter, splitter | sawyer | section hand | sprayer | stacker | steeplejack | dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore | fireman, stoker | woodcutter | wrecker | yardman ... show more.

derivation: drive, labor, labour, push, tug | dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.