unskilled labor
Example Sentences
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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
“Young, unskilled labor are trusted to perform safety-driven tasks, and it’s scary,” said Barbara Samuels, a former associate lighting supervisor who, as an intern, almost fell from a truss structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
The aim of the early factory owners and managers was to simplify the stages of the manufacturing process so that they could be executed by cheap, unskilled labor.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Yes, it was unskilled labor, but for what it's worth, I did very little sweeping.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
