manual labor

Examples of manual labor in the following topics:

• 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.

• The Working Class

  • Those in the working class are commonly employed in low-skilled occupations, including clerical and retail positions and blue collar or manual labor occupations.

• 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

• Family Life

  • As agricultural families could use the labor of additional children and had limited access to healthcare (resulting in a high rate of infant mortality), having many children was beneficial to these families of low socioeconomic status.
  • By contrast, in urban areas with limited space and no need for manual labor, having additional children was a cost, rather than benefit, to middle and upper income families.

• Disinvestment and Deindustrialization

  • One "resource" that is particularly expensive is labor.
  • This process took a heavy toll on an auto industry, which was already losing jobs due to technological innovations that required less manual labor.

• 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.

• Psychological Theories of Deviance

  • According the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–IV (the professional manual listing all medically recognized mental disorders and their symptoms), conduct disorder presents as aggressive and disrespectful behavior.
  • The DSM, the manual for what the psychological community recognizes as a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis, is a revised manual.
  • According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – IV, the professional manual listing all medically recognized mental disorders and their symptoms, conduct disorder presents as aggressive and disrespectful behavior.

• Importance of Division of Labor

  • Division of labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles.
  • An example of the division of labor in the workplace is how workers at a candy factory have very particular tasks.
  • Now that labor has been specialized not just nationally but globally, people often wonder what type of division of labor would be the most beautiful, fair, ideal, and efficient.
  • A highly specialized division of labor is often used in factories, such as this Chinese silk factory.
  • Examine how the division of labor can lead to alienation and less satisfaction in the workforce

• The Division of Labor

  • Division of labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific, circumscribed tasks and similar roles.
  • An assembly line is an example of the division of labor.
  • Division of labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles.
  • Emilie Durkheim was a driving force in developing the theory of the division of labor in socialization.
  • In view of the global extremes of the division of labor, the question is often raised about what manner of division of labor would be ideal, most efficient, and most just.