Sentence examples for menial labour from inspiring English sources

Are you really not doing that much creative work, are you mostly just doing menial labour?" he says.

Their parents equate blowing glass with menial labour and want to send them to university rather than enrol them as apprentices.

For the menial labour by which the underprivileged typically enter his sport is largely undertaken by Hispanics – source, in turn, of most emerging jockeys in America.

It is two decades since scores of boys in shorts routinely went from door to door soliciting money from absolute strangers in return for manual and menial labour.

Only a few hundred Chinese lived in the state in 1850, but two years later one resident out of 10 was Chinese; most performed menial labour.

Many of those present had spent the last 20 years as the victims of the regime's bullying: for some, the fate was menial labour.

Back in 1975, John Berger and the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr produced an unusual book entitled A Seventh Man about the millions of rural migrants moving to western Europe to perform menial industrial labour.

Cleaning is not menial forced labour, it shows the students care about their teacher and want to preserve their art.

But then I grew up and traded my imagination for menial part time labour and mild alcohol abuse, like normal folks do.

Many face years of menial and unpaid domestic labour, violence and abuse.

For new migrants, meanwhile, poor English and weak formal education are huge barriers to work, crowding those women who do so into poorly-paid and menial jobs.According to the Labour Force Survey, though, the number trying to find work is increasing surprisingly fast.