Unskilled Worker
(Redirected from unskilled worker)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A Unskilled Worker is a worker who can perform an unskilled job.
- Context:
- They can range from being an Unskilled Human Worker to being an Unskilled Robot Worker.
- They can range from being an Unskilled Employee to being an Unskilled Freelancer.
- They can range from being a Very Unskilled Worker to being a Relatively Unskilled Worker.
- Example(s):
- a Taxi Driver.
- a Dog Walker.
- a Restaurant Server.
- a Nursing-Home Aide.
- a Sales Clerk.
- a Hotel Maid.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- Skilled Worker, such as a welder.
- See: Repetitive Task, Blue Collar Worker, Agent Skill Level.
References
2001
- (Ehrenreich, 2001) ⇒ Barbara Ehrenreich. (2001). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." Henry Holt and Company. ISBN:0805063889
- QUOTE: Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. ... she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. ... Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly “unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort.