manual worker
Example Sentences
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He and his working-class peers, on the other hand, were “put on the fast lane” to become a manual worker.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2020
Times recently bemoaned the evisceration of the American middle class, a topic that Laura Clawson jumped on at Daily Kos, pointing out that a manual worker can no longer carve out a middle class lifestyle.
From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2011
Moreover, Khrushchev is the first Red czar to have been a laborer, a manual worker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Step by step all along the line the machine has ousted the skilled manual worker, either rendering his office superfluous, or retaining him to play the part of servant to the new machine.
From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
