unskilled

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CareScout’s estimate for paid home care is based on 44 hours a week of unskilled care.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, became the first mass labor organization, welcoming all “producers”: skilled and unskilled, Black and white, men and women.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

India has largely missed the bus on low-end, unskilled factory work - jobs China dominated for decades.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

H-2B visas allow unskilled workers like gardeners and housekeepers to work in the U.S. for 10 months, while the H-1B program lets skilled workers like software engineers remain for up to three years.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2024

They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler