factory hand
Industrial floor laborer
A factory hand is a worker who performs manual labor in a factory, typically doing routine tasks on a production line or in manufacturing.
The term emphasizes physical work rather than supervisory or administrative roles: The mill employed three hundred factory hands.
Like farmhand or deckhand, the word hand here means a person who works with their hands.
- laborerPhysical task performer
- workerPerson who toils
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- shiftMovement or work period
- night shiftOvernight work period
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- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- factory workersassembly line worker, floor worker, machine operator, assembler, welder
- hourly jobshourly worker, day laborer, fast food worker, laborer, part-timer
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- textile workerstailor, dressmaker, weaver, weavers, spinner
factory handplant manager
Head of manufacturing facility
management · foreman · supervisor · boss · executive
factory handwhite-collar worker
Non-manual professional employee
office worker · executive · professional · knowledge worker · administrator
factory handindustrialist
Major manufacturing business owner
capitalist · employer · proprietor · business owner · entrepreneur
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