30.08% of deceased who had died at health facilities were working manual work compared with 15.08% for those who were working sales and services.
Society's appreciation for skilled manual labor and craftsmanship has faded, he said, because "we've had this dichotomy of knowledge work versus manual work, as though they are two different things".
His story describes a dystopia in which machines have taken over brain work as well as manual work, and a giant computer, EPICAC XIV, makes all the decisions.
The solution has been legislation to improve standards of health, safety and benefits etc, not to make heavy manual work, tedious factory work and street cleaning, for example, all illegal.
The working day is divided into three roughly equal portions: five to six hours of liturgical and other prayer; five hours of manual work, whether domestic work, craft work, garden work, or field work; and four hours reading of the Scriptures and spiritual writings.
And brain work is going the way of manual work, to whoever will provide the best value for money.
But as manual work gave way to mechanized work, and then to automation, the need for such a huge space in the middle of Manhattan faded.
Manual work has never been so chic.
The challenges and satisfactions of manual work.
He made her do the manual work.
Many areas of manual work are being affected.
