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
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this takes place, as I hope it will, the rural laborer, instead of being a manual worker using primitive implements, will have the status of a skilled mechanic employed permanently by a cooperative community.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William
