manual labor
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It reduced fire hazards and constant manual labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
When he came to the U.S. from Costa Rica about 40 years ago, he did manual labor during wine harvests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
“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
He added that “many” undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area “do not speak much English,” and work low-wage, manual labor jobs.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 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
