“I was tired of living like that,” one said ... prestigious white-collar jobs for manual labor. The scale of the trend is hard to measure, but widely shared social media posts have documented ...

But the emphasis that educators place on a college degree has created a powerful cultural barrier: Manual labor is not cool ... jobs as "dark and dirty and dead-end and dangerous," said Phyllis ...

I was also bothered that it seems that the world of manual labor is just for men. Crawford rarely uses the feminine pronoun and at least twice he proudly states the importance of dirty jokes to ...

In the 19th century, the introduction of automation replaced dirty and dangerous jobs with ... and machinery which relieved humans of onerous manual labor. In the years following, machinery ...