manual labor
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It reduced fire hazards and constant manual labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
There will be winners, Restrepo said: workers whose jobs require social skills, proximity or manual labor, and consumers, who get cheaper products and services.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
“You have a lot of manual labor that involves very heavy moving of objects and people can get cut. People can get hurt,” said Pras Velagapudi, chief technology officer at Agility Robotics.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
In the 1970s, when the current rules were written, the official said, many more jobs involved manual labor, but in the internet age that isn’t true anymore.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Kelley was assigned to his cell twelve hours a day, and taken out for twelve-hour work shifts, building fortifications and doing other heavy manual labor.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
