The workers who perform the physical labor in an organization can be considered an asset.
His hands were soft for an Afghan, with long manicured fingernails, and they were no longer accustomed to physical labor.
With fewer Chinese doing physical labor, more driving cars instead of bicycles, lifestyle has played a prominent role in the trend.
But other workers whose jobs required heavy physical labor or who for other physical reasons could not work past their early 60s could retire early.
The intense physical labor produced dark bruises and aching muscles.
Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.
Says he: "Armchair professors and bureaucrats who sit behind desks pushing a pencil all day can work until age 68 without any serious difficulty, " but manual workers are too worn out by physical labor to stay on the job that long.
Indeed, the Industrial Revolution itself (since 1750) entails the near-incessant introduction of new machines, factories, technologies, energies and transportation-communication systems all of which saved physical labor and made skilled labor more productive (thus better paid), and coincided with massive growth in all kinds of jobs, including in services, intellectual fields and in the invention, design and creation of new technologies.
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"At Berga, captured soldiers were forced to endure inhumane conditions and suffer from the Nazi policy of physical destruction through labor, " Baca and Bachus said in their letter to Geren.
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She also brings abstract social forces to life with a tactile vigor, offering a sensual sociology by way of births, weddings, family and workplace rituals, and the physical details of manual labor.
Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.
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In one, the labor supply for jobs with physical skills increases and leads to a drop in wages.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the number of physical therapist jobs to grow by 39 percent (or 77, 400) between 2010 and 2020.
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The Claims Conference, which seeks restitution for Jewish Holocaust victims, issued a 2004 report saying many Bulgarian Jews were sent to labor camps, where they performed railroad and construction work under grueling physical conditions.
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