MANUALLABOUR

Manual labour

Manual labour or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and also to that done by working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands, and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the muscles and bones of the body. For most of human prehistory and history, manual labour and its close cousin, animal labour, have been the primary ways that physical work has been accomplished. Mechanisation and automation, which reduce the need for human and animal labour in production, have existed for centuries, but it was only starting in the 19th century that they began to ...

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manual labour

Noun

  1. Physical work done "by hand" (or using basic implements) instead of by machines, usually implying it is unskilled or physically demanding.


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