manual labour
(Commonwealth spelling, Canadian) : physically demanding work done by hand.
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I have more fun doing manual labour like moving furniture than sitting on my computer in 2026.
You can say the "e" word Jo. He's spoken about putting SSRI takers and kids with ADHD on "farms" where there treatment will be sunlight and manual labour. Which I think we can all decode.
magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/04/29/t... The working class in the sense of those not owning but controlled by capital embraces not just manual labour. And has an elective affinity with universalist not particularist…
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(Commonwealth spelling, Canadian) : physically demanding work done by hand.
“I have more fun doing manual labour like moving furniture than sitting on my computer in 2026.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“You can say the "e" word Jo. He's spoken about putting SSRI takers and kids with ADHD on "farms" where there treatment will be sunlight and manual labour. Which I think we can all decode.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/04/29/t... The working class in the sense of those not owning but controlled by capital embraces not just manual labour. And has an elective affinity with universalist not particularist ethics”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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