do manual work

Why were people willing to do manual work back in the 60s and 70s?

Thus her concern over his doing manual work at the summer house was understandable.

Doing manual work towards a goal is much more rewarding.

But women in colonies are never permitted to do manual work."

It was he who recommended him to do manual work for his rheumatism.

Very early in life, out of necessity, he did manual work and had to bear heavy responsibilities for his family.

"It was one of those things where it just feels good to do manual work," he said.

I never touched them, but they looked rough and callused from doing manual work."

In the early 1900s he emigrated to Australia and did manual work before returning to cycle racing.

"Sure-coolie labor, back in the 19th century, to do manual work on the railroads.

She had started leaning as I'd shown her and probably thought she had to make noises, doing manual work and all.

You lookin' to do manual work again?"

"I know the nature of work has changed; the term working class is used to mean guys in overalls with dirty fingernails doing manual work," he said.

Milvey was a shortish thick-set man with the heavy build and big spread hands of someone who has done manual work for most of his life.

He later also did manual work "in and around Bacchus Marsh in the milk factory, digging potatoes, picking tomatoes and fruit".

He'd had a good job as a successful accountant in London, but ended his days doing manual work and living in a shack in the Prairies: why?

There were a few others around, writing or reading or napping - too sick, with heart trouble or back trouble, usually, to do manual work of any kind.

They did manual work for several years but when they arrived in Newcastle they started entering cycle races using the pseudonyms of Mills and Atkinson.

"Since ages, we are doing manual work," said Rehaman Sheik, 35, an illiterate plumber in the Dharavi slum of Bombay.

I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person.

"You couldn't do manual work; you're too independent and unsuggestible to belong to the larger Herd; you have none of the characteristics required in a Man of Faith.

He left school at 13, did manual work and found labouring jobs but, more importantly, began singing as an amateur in 1933 in a travelling choir called Les chanteurs montagnards d'Alfred Roland.

They hardly ever did manual work, and by the thirteenth century they found it increasingly difficult to keep up the full routine of services: there were not enough monks, and they had more mundane things to do.

The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia (née Beardsall), a former pupil teacher who, owing to her family's financial difficulties, had to do manual work in a lace factory.

To avoid friction blisters on the hands, gloves should be worn when using tools such as a shovel or pickaxe, doing manual work such as gardening, or using sports equipment like golf clubs or baseball bats.