activist vs worker

activist

noun
  • One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions. 

  • One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change. 

adj
  • Behaving as an activist. 

worker

noun
  • A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor. 

  • A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. 

  • A female ant, bee, termite or wasp. 

  • A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program. 

How often have the words activist and worker occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )