Many African Americans at the time were in unskilled labor.
In that early stage, it was mostly unskilled female labor.
A comparable wage for unskilled labor at the time was about $0.43-$1 per day.
I've enough unskilled labor to keep them a day or two, and welcome they are to all of it.
All that can be produced by "unskilled labor" is the basic capital good.
Many worked in unskilled labor and as food member.
I was unskilled labor, a dime a dozen on the job market.
The tower is estimated to have taken 83,000 average working days to complete, most of which was unskilled labor.
Both skilled and unskilled labor are invited to join the program.
The going rate for unskilled labor was four to six dollars a day, twelve hours, no nonsense.