hand labor
Work by muscle
Hand labor is physical work done by human effort rather than by machines.
The term often appears in contexts contrasting traditional methods with mechanized ones: The harvest still requires hand labor.
It can also distinguish tasks performed directly by workers from those done by equipment: The intricate finishing work demanded skilled hand labor.
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- hard workSustained strenuous effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- callousedThickened from wear
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
picking · field work · digging · hauling · farmhand · harvest · muscle · grueling · craft · artisan · handmade · fields · blistered · wages · migrant · plowing · sowing · weeding
- preindustrialpreindustrial, pre-industrial, guild, agrarian, pastoral
- Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, public penance
- tobacco farmingtobacco leaf, tobacco leaves, tobacco fields, tobacco field, tobacco barn
- shakerssalt shaker, pepper shaker, cocktail shaker, sugar shaker, parmesan shaker
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, anti-technology
hand laborautomation
Self-operating system design
industrial automation · mechanization · factory automation · mass production · automated systems
hand laborintellectual labor
Work requiring thought
brainwork · desk work · office work · clerical work · professional services
hand, labor, hands, handed, handing, handy, handful, handily, handedness