millworker

mill +‎ worker

millworker (plural millworkers)

1. One who works in a mill.
   • 2009 September 6, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times‎:

     In DEFYING DIXIE: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore presents a colorful “collective biography of activist black and white Southerners,” including Communists and Socialists, academics and millworkers, who, she argues, prepared the way for the movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

   • 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 56:

     Lostock Junction was another 'Beeching closure'. The quiet four-platform junction station primarily served the large cotton mills next to the line and the few dozen millworkers' houses nearby.