manual labor

Three years ago, he and his wife moved to South Korea, where he vowed to never again do manual labor.

There’s manual labor and gallons of sweat involved.

As political scientist Nicholas Carnes points out in his 2018 book “The Cash Ceiling,” only 2% of congressional lawmakers worked in manual labor, the service industry or clerical jobs before getting involved in politics.

A shift from herbicides and manual labor to intelligent robots would have far-reaching consequences for California’s $50-billion agriculture industry and local economies.

“I needed to imagine things being different than how they were in my town,” Álvarez said of his childhood in Yakima, where he watched his parents struggle with long days of manual labor.