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  2. Glossary of Wobbly terms - Wikipedia

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    A reward in heaven for working hard on earth while hungry. Used in the song The Preacher and the Slave by Joe Hill. Play the Hoosier Dissatisfied workers on the job who intentionally fail to work efficiently are "playing the Hoosier" [29] Plough jockey A farmer Plug-ugly A thug or a goon Plush, on the

  3. Blue-collar worker - Wikipedia

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    Particularly those service jobs that have historically been female dominated such as nurses, teachers, early childhood educators, florists, etc. [1] Many occupations blend blue, white, or pink-collar work and are often paid hourly wage-labor, although some professionals may be paid by the project or salaried. There are a wide range of payscales ...

  4. Manual labour - Wikipedia

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    Semi-automation is an alternative to worker displacement that combines human labour, automation, and computerisation to leverage the advantages of both man and machine. Although nearly any work can potentially have skill and intelligence applied to it, many jobs that mostly comprise manual labour—such as fruit and vegetable picking, manual ...

  5. Man-hour - Wikipedia

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    Human-hours worked per week in the United States. Labor is supply, money is demand.. A man-hour or human-hour is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour. [1] [2] It is used for estimation of the total amount of uninterrupted labor required to perform a task.

  6. Dockworker - Wikipedia

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    The word stevedore (/ ˈ s t iː v ɪ ˌ d ɔːr /) originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. [3] It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador or estibador (), meaning a man who loads ships and stows cargo, which was the original meaning of stevedore (though there is a secondary meaning of "a man who stuffs" in Spanish); compare Latin ...

  7. 105 of the Best Two-Word Phrases for a Quick, Heartfelt ... - AOL

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    These short and sweet messages make a big statement.

  8. The Time Machine (2002 film) - Wikipedia

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    Many time-traveling scenes were entirely computer generated, including a 33-second shot in the workshop where the time machine is located. The camera pulls out, traveling through New York City and then into space, past the ISS , and ends with a space plane landing at the Moon to reveal Earth's future lunar colonies.

  9. Luddite - Wikipedia

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    The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching. The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of ...