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2. Prison farm - Wikipedia

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   A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining.

3. Blue-collar worker - Wikipedia

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   The term blue collar was first used in reference to trades jobs in 1924, in an Alden, Iowa newspaper. [2] The phrase stems from the image of manual workers wearing blue denim or chambray shirts as part of their uniforms. [3] Industrial and manual workers often wear durable canvas or cotton clothing that may be soiled during the course of their ...

4. Manual labour - Wikipedia

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   Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand ) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the ...

5. 10 Jobs That Let You Dress Down - AOL

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   Technology, design and manual labor jobs tend to be a little more lax, while jobs that involve face-to-face customer interaction tend to be all business. Show comments Advertisement

6. Laborer - Wikipedia

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   A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor typed within the construction industry. There is a generic factory laborer which is defined separately as a factory worker. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries employing laborers ...

7. Opinion: California ruled with great jobs and boom times ...

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   In the last three years, the situation worsened, with 78.1% of all jobs added in California coming from lower-than-average paying industries, versus 61% for the nation as a whole.