manual worker
Example Sentences
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He and his working-class peers, on the other hand, were “put on the fast lane” to become a manual worker.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2020
Times recently bemoaned the evisceration of the American middle class, a topic that Laura Clawson jumped on at Daily Kos, pointing out that a manual worker can no longer carve out a middle class lifestyle.
From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2011
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again.
From Time Magazine Archive
The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed in mess--a manual worker of images.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our conception of a civilization must include, nay, must begin with the life of the humblest, the life of the average man or manual worker, for if we neglect them we will build in sand.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William
