manual worker
Hands-on job holder
A manual worker is someone whose job involves physical labor rather than office or intellectual work.
The term covers factory workers, construction crews, farmhands, and similar occupations where you work with your hands: Her father was a manual worker in the steel mills.
The phrase often carries class connotations, distinguishing blue-collar from white-collar employment.
- blue collarManual labor workforce
- hard hatProtective headgear for worksites
- loaderOne who fills containers
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- carpenterTimber construction tradesperson
tool belt · rancher · farmhand · janitor · welder · mason · steelworker · oil rig · electrician · machinist · blacksmith · roofer · assembler · harvester · heavy lifting · cleaner · shepherd · handyman
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, hired hands
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion
manual workerknowledge worker
Employee trading in expertise
white-collar worker · office worker · professional · academic · paper pusher
manual workerwhite-collar worker
Non-manual professional employee
professional · executive · manager · suit · bourgeoisie
manual, worker, manually, work, works, worked, working, workable, unworkable