Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers.

Beyond him were a dozen or more others, big men with the look of manual workers.

After the war, he shortly worked as a manual worker.

Demands for office staff to be sent home along with manual workers were refused.

Indeed, eight out of ten manual workers are paid weekly in cash.

They had plenty of manual workers; was every single strong back so valuable?

They seemed to be the hands of a manual worker yet she was in no shape to do heavy labor.

But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers.

Of course, those were not manual workers and didn't come to work in coffee plantations.

Both looked like manual workers, but there was a marked age disparity.

There is a shortage of skilled manual workers in this country.

They were rough and permanently brown, the hands of a manual worker.

His own was hard and calloused, the hand of a manual worker.

As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers.

Even among highly skilled manual workers, more than one in eight were jobless.

Membership of the parliamentary party has changed; the manual workers have all but disappeared.

The immediate post war period was also when the practice of retirement at around age 65 became almost universal among manual workers.

But no woman manual workers in the industry yet earn as much as any of the men.

Here he finally came into contact with manual workers, and he began to write poetry.

Overtime is very much a manual worker's way of increasing his basic wage.

Manual workers are not the only occupational group to have to cope with imposed controls.

They are the army of manual workers doing the unheralded, largely forgotten jobs that also make the nation go.

This excluded virtually all manual workers and most women.

Professional people do so on a consultancy basis, skilled manual workers as and when they can.

Instead, the biggest swing was among skilled manual workers.