Most “unskilled labor” is heavily skill dependant. You wouldn’t want a chef, builder or painter who didn’t know what they were doing. And for production: machinists, mechanics and foremen make or break profit with their skills.
So what’s a better name for these jobs?
Edit: I have been told that plumbers don’t qualify as unskilled, and as such they have been exchanged for painter.
I define skilled as you are hired to do a task.
Well, that just changes the meaning of the word “skilled” to be the same as “hired” which is a bit pointless since we already had a word for that. And now we need a new one … like “no-qualification labour”.
yes, you are hired to do a thing that requires skill. Everything requires skill, if something did not require some level of skill there would be no job.
Again, depends on your definition of skill.
I would not classify the ability to grab, lift or carry as a “skill” in terms of labour. You are hired to do work. But if basically any able-bodied person could do the work, it doesn’t require skill.