unskilled labor

Example Sentences

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I think anyone who’s done unskilled labor would be able to relate.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

It was like, "That person took my work. That person that I can point to is using these machines and child labor and unskilled labor to run them."

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

I accompanied her team as an embedded journalist, earning my keep with unskilled labor, much of it involving a snow shovel.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2022

The vacancies were for both skilled and unskilled labor, with worker shortages most severe in the construction, manufacturing and services industries.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2022

But the skilled butchers were now a small part of a huge, mostly unskilled labor pool.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield