manual worker
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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
Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed in mess--a manual worker of images.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the desire of the manual worker to know the relation of his own labor to the whole is not only legitimate but must form the basis of any intelligent action for his improvement.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams