drudge vs hireling

drudge

noun
  • Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. 

  • A person who works in a low servile job. 

verb
  • To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. 

hireling

noun
  • An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. 

  • Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. 

  • A horse for hire. 

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