Manual labour
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Manual labour or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands and, by figurative extension, it is w
Detail from Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce (1896)
Peasants harvesting crops, by Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel, 17th century
Working animal
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A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks. Some are used for their physical strength or for transportation, while others are service anim
Manual labour
…labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with…
Traditional farming methods using oxen
A bullock team hauling wool in New South Wales
The horse-drawn winch of a former limestone quarry (France)
A pack llama