menial labor

At the time — this is in the early 90s — cooking in a kitchen was still menial labor.

When she told a friend what happened, she was punished by the church with months of menial labor.

There is also the fact that several Moroccan players’ parents followed the common path of emigrating to Europe to support their families through menial labor, like Mr. Hakimi’s mother, a house cleaner, and father, a street vendor.

Penal colony is a term used to describe the most common type of prison in Russia, where inmates are housed in barracks and engage in menial labor for symbolic pay.

“Small Things Like These” examines the moral corrosion that spread into towns and villages where Catholic nunneries ran Magdalene Laundries, institutions where pregnant and unwed women and girls were forced to perform menial labor and were separated from their babies, many of whom died.