unskilled

Examples of semi-skilled

semi-skilled
What evidence there is suggests that most women were employed in domestic service and the textile trades in semi-skilled and unskilled work.
These susceptible groups include unskilled and semi-skilled labourers many of whom frequently have to lift heavy loads.
This was a form of semi-skilled labour migration entirely organized by private firms, without any state intervention.
He was employed there first as an unskilled construction worker and, later, as a semi-skilled worker in the ironworks.
Rates by socio-economic group were high for men among personal service workers, and semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers.
The breeder needed to undertake those visual assessments, while the physiological measurements could be carried out with (lower-cost) semi-skilled labour.
These lower-paid activities included rough masonry, walling, pointing, plastering, daubing, and thatching, which were evidently regarded as semi-skilled or lower-skilled occupations.
When in paid-work, the majority had been employed in service occupations, manual work, or semi-skilled and skilled work in the tailoring and engineering trades.
This is taken as the market value of replacing the labour of the carer when that person is engaged in semi-skilled caring tasks such as bathing and dressing.
By the end of 1919 there were twelve industrial settlements, with a total population of 4,583, and most had become suppliers of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
The ' civilized labour policy ' did not require raising the wages paid to semi-skilled or skilled workers, because poverty among white people was rarely due to low wages.
Classes 6 and 7, for example, may be under-represented, though the difference here may also mean that fewer men of 47 are employed as semi-skilled or unskilled manual workers.
If we turn to another class of busker, the musically un- or semi-skilled (as judged by repertoire and technical ability), we see similar status negotiations at play.
This was a sample of working-class couples : all but one husband had worked in unskilled or semi-skilled manual occupations and 18 couples lived in local authority rented flats.
Among these the dominant categories were merchants (38 per cent), machinists (31 per cent), skilled or semi-skilled artisans (13 per cent) and professionals (9 per cent).
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