unskilled work
Example Sentences
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For the many people whom nature or education made fit only for unskilled work, wages are now so low that it doesn't pay to get a job and can actually make you worse off.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2020
The first major wave of Sikh immigrants arrived in the 1980s, when many Italians were turning their backs on what was considered menial, unskilled work.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2016
He refuses to bring on unauthorized immigrants and has found locals largely unwilling to take on such tedious unskilled work.
From Reuters ● May 2, 2015
Low-paid unskilled work for ever more, or an unpaid internship, which most could not afford to do without strong parental financial support?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2014
Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
