unskilled work
Jobs requiring no training
Unskilled work is labor requiring no specialized training or expertise—tasks that most people could perform with minimal instruction.
The term appears in employment law, economics, and immigration contexts to distinguish jobs like cleaning, basic assembly, or manual labor from skilled trades or professional work.
He spent summers doing unskilled work at the warehouse.
- waitressingRestaurant service work
- fast foodSpeedy prepared meals
- babysittingCaring for others' children temporarily
- fruit pickingGathering ripe crops manually
- crop harvestingGathering mature farm produce
dishwashing · cashiering · data entry · stacking · sorting · assembly line · cleaning · pet sitting · food preparation · product labeling · packing · physical exertion · palletizing · parking attendant · day labor · odd jobs · laundry services · lawn care
- laborlabor, labor union, labor force, laborers, labor movement
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
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