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
It’s a very, very high minimum for what might be relatively unskilled work.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2015
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
In 1901, Anatanas Kaztauskis came to Chicago from Lithuania, eager to take on the unskilled work that Swift had created.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
