The phrase "ordinary labor" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to regular or typical work that does not require any specialized skills or training. Example: The company hired additional staff to help with the ordinary labor of packaging and shipping orders during the busy holiday season.
The mediation was typical of an ordinary labor case.
Mr. Maye's combativeness drew death threats from people who resented firefighters' use of ordinary labor tactics when lives could be at stake.
On the surface, the dispute involves fairly ordinary labor issues, including wages, benefits, stress levels on the job and outside contracting of certain work.
Brandon has an office job, but we never learn what it entails; people hold smooth-looking meetings behind glass walls, but "Shame" prefers not to sully its hands with the grease of ordinary labor.
The question in Circuit City Stores v. Adams, No. 99-1379, is whether the Federal Arbitration Act, a 1925 law that excludes certain employment contracts from its coverage, applies to ordinary labor agreements of this type.
The Labor Inspectorate determined that these delivery people are under a "false appearance" of self-employed to "cover up" an ordinary labor relationship.
Broder considers how these representations contributed to debates over the nature of family life and focuses on the ways different historical actors social reformers, labor activists, and ordinary laboring people made use of the available cultural narratives about family, gender, and sexuality to comprehend changes in turn-of-the-century America.
These victims, among them journalists, activists, lawyers, and -- most importantly -- countless ordinary citizens, labor under the same repressive laws against freedom of expression, organization, assembly, and association as religious groups, and are at a distinct disadvantage to those who can twist "God's" message to fit their own political needs.
If Abstract Expressionism is about the preciousness of the painter's touch, Mr. Hammons's arrangements of raddled plastics and frayed blankets are about the touch of ordinary bodies laboring, sweating, sleeping, trying to stay warm.
I strongly believe that cooking, as many other manual activities, is a legitimate form of knowledge that has been kept to the margins of culture that favored intellectual and theoretical endeavors, leaving practice and manual skills to the messy and ordinary world of labor.
What came to the rescue were a suspension of usual resentments, an acceptance of shared pain and an uncommon unity among government leaders, labor unions, ordinary citizens and bankers.
