industrial labor
Blue-collar factory employment
Industrial labor is work performed in manufacturing, mining, construction, and other industries involving physical production of goods.
The term often implies manual work in factories or plants, frequently with an emphasis on the organized workforce: Industrial labor drove the economic boom of the postwar era.
It contrasts with agricultural labor on one hand and white-collar or service work on the other.
- shift workLabor in timed blocks
- overtime payCompensation for excess hours
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
socialism · workplace safety · skilled trades · occupational health · conveyor belt · shop floor · hard hat · shop steward · trade unions · sweatshops · piece rate · mass production · punch in · fair wages · worker rights · collective bargaining · factory work · unionization
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- labor systemschattel slavery, debt bondage, indentured servitude, manorialism, peonage
- labor migrationmigrant worker, migrant workers, guest workers, guest worker, foreign workers
- migrant labormigrant workers, foreign workers, farmworkers, guest workers, agricultural workers
- Forced Laborwork camps, concentration camps
industrial laborprofessional services
Fee-based expert work
office work · intellectual labor · desk job · creative work · clerical work
industrial laboragricultural labor
Work done growing crops
farm work · farm labor · pastoral work · subsistence farming · rural labor
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