manual labor

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There will be winners, Restrepo said: workers whose jobs require social skills, proximity or manual labor, and consumers, who get cheaper products and services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

When he came to the U.S. from Costa Rica about 40 years ago, he did manual labor during wine harvests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“You have a lot of manual labor that involves very heavy moving of objects and people can get cut. People can get hurt,” said Pras Velagapudi, chief technology officer at Agility Robotics.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

There’s manual labor and gallons of sweat involved.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024

There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung