Since the start of the industrial revolution people have been paid a pittance for manual labor. |
They could pretend that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback. |
In this society, his job was one of the few, in which people exactly performed manual labor. |
Many refugees who were professionals in their countries now find themselves performing menial tasks or manual labor. |
Fourier wanted to elevate the status of manual labor, to rescue it from a long-standing tradition of degradation and denigration. |
The early English Protestants rejected the Thomistic view that manual labor has a penal aspect, derived from Adam's punishment. |