Roustabout

However, rouseabouts or "rousies" most commonly work in rural employment, especially sheep farming, as in the film The Sundowners, where they leave town before the sun goes down.

The term was discriminately used in Disney's 1941 animated film Dumbo, during a musical scene in which depicted a group of African-American laborers pulling circus materials off the train for construction.

Farley Granger's character, Arthur "Bowie" Bowers, in Nicholas Ray's 1948 film noir They Live By Night, tells Catherine "Keeetchie" Mobley (Cathy O'Donnell) that he was a roustabout with a circus.

"Roustabout" is also the name of a song recorded by the bluegrass band, Open Road, on their album Lucky Drive.

[4] In the sci-fi short story Big Sam Was My Friend, Harlan Ellison refers to roustabout robots as "roustabots".