manual labor

Examples of manual labor in the following topics:

• Slave Labor

  • Slave labor in the United States - especially on large plantations - consisted of hard manual labor often under brutal conditions.
  • While the majority of slaves performed hard manual labor on farms and plantations, slavery was also seen in the major cities in the forms of house servants.
  • By 1860, most slaves were held in the Deep South, where they were engaged in agricultural labor on large plantations.
  • There were two primary types of labor systems seen on plantations: the gang system and the task system.
  • For example, women laborers were the predominant work force for rice cultivation within the task system of the Southeastern United States.

• Meaning perspectives

  • For instance, in the scenario, the learners had a limited understanding of AutoCAD (meaning schemes), and they felt that the only valuable way to work in architectural design was through manual labor and hard work (meaning perspective).

• Who Is an Artist?

  • From these words we can denote the ancient standard of equating art with manual labor or craft.
  • However, there was no muse identified with the painting and sculpture; ancient Greek culture held these art forms in low social regard, considering work of this sort to be more along the lines of manual labor.
  • The first division into "major" and "minor" arts dates back to the 1400s with the work of Leon Battista Alberti, which focused on the importance of the intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills of a craftsman.

• A Market Society

  • Drastic changes in the manual labor system altered the schedules, wages, and working conditions for laborers.
  • Artisanal trades began to give way to more efficient systems of production that did not require skilled labor.
  • Wage labor became an increasingly common experience.

• The Lower Class

  • When used by social scientists, the lower class is typically defined as service employees, low-level manual laborers, and the unemployed.
  • Those who do not participate in the labor force, and who rely on public assistance, such as food stamps and welfare checks, as their main source of income, are commonly identified as members of the underclass, or, colloquially, the poor.

• Deindustrialization

  • At the same time, technological innovation continued to increase the efficiency of manufacturing, which required less and less manual labor.
  • They have also eliminated jobs, as technological innovation has reduced the demand for manual labor.
  • Though total industrial employment has been relatively stable over the past forty years, the overall U.S. labor force has increased dramatically, resulting in a massive reduction in the percent of the labor force that is engaged in industry.

• Industrial Societies: The Birth of the Machine

  • Starting in the later part of the 18th century, there began a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual labor and draft-animal-based economy toward machine-based manufacturing.
  • Analyze the shift from manual to machine based labor during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions

• Fair Labor Standards Act

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established a national minimum wage, forbade "oppressive" child labor, and provided for overtime pay in designated occupations.
  • The category they fall in depends on rules established by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • Blue collar workers (including manual workers) fall into this category.
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established a national minimum wage, forbade "oppressive" child labor, and provided for overtime pay in designated occupations.
  • Explain the specifications of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)

• Industrial Work

  • Industrial labor is labor in industry, usually manufacturing, but it may also include service work, such as cleaning or cooking.
  • But this type of production required a new type of labor, industrial labor.
  • Industrial labor is defined as labor in industry.
  • Karl Marx referred to industrial laborers as members of the proletariat .
  • Industrial and manual workers often wear durable canvas or cotton clothing that may be soiled during the course of their work.

• Abortion

  • Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) consists of removing the fetus or embryo, placenta, and membranes by suction using a manual syringe, while electric vacuum aspiration (EVA) uses an electric pump.
  • Manual vaccum aspiration (MVA), also known as "mini-suction" and "menstrual extraction", can be used in very early pregnancy, and does not require cervical dilation.
  • Premature labor and delivery can be induced with prostaglandin; this can be coupled with injecting the amniotic fluid with hypertonic solutions containing saline or urea.
  • In the third trimester of pregnancy, abortion may be performed by IDX as described above, induction of labor, or by hysterotomy.