manual labor

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Bamberger continued to spend his time doing manual labor on the ranch well into his 90s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 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

In the 1970s, when the current rules were written, the official said, many more jobs involved manual labor, but in the internet age that isn’t true anymore.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

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