adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unskilled worker
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Some ex-miners now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories.
skilled/unskilled labour
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Employers want to keep skilled labour because of the cost of training.
skilled/unskilled occupations (= needing training and experience/not needing training and experience )
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Plumbing and carpentry are highly skilled occupations.
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Workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer job opportunities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
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It seemed indeed that the numbers of low-paid unskilled jobs were growing with the advance of mechanization.
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The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs , often in the retail sector.
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For every unskilled job we advertise, we get a hundred applicants - more than a hundred.
labor
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In this regard, it seems to be essential to distinguish between the skilled and unskilled labor markets.
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The result: a flooded unskilled labor market.
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First, substitution possibilities are not symmetrical between the skilled and the unskilled labor .
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Those empty countries needed both people and unskilled labor .
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The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
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The demand for unskilled labor is going down; the pool of unskilled labor is growing...
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Well-paying jobs for unskilled labor are disappearing at an alarming rate.
labour
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That is, where unskilled labour prevailed there was chronic want and deprivation.
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If they are wanted at all they are probably wanted in large numbers and to be made in a hurry by unskilled labour .
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Here over half the total workforce was unskilled , and here resided nearly half the borough's pool of unskilled labour .
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The shift from the main traditional occupation, agriculture, to unskilled labour , was considerable.
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It was an industrial structure weighted heavily toward the use of semiskilled and unskilled labour .
man
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The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men .
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It is far higher-and rising-among unskilled men than among professional men.
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At the bottom end, less-skilled women have been losing out, but by much less than unskilled men .
work
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It is no condemnation of those people, but that is semi-skilled or unskilled work .
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Thanks to under-mechanisation, one-third of youths with specialised secondary school qualifications end up doing unskilled work .
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They may require elements of microbiology and chemical science as well as organisational ability but they are still generally regarded as unskilled work .
worker
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Professional men, for example, see half as many friends again as unskilled workers .
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She traveled to Mississippi to help unskilled workers get jobs at shipyards in Pascagoula, the hometown of Lott.
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Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were more willing to relocate than management and professional staff.
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At about the same time, in 1884, the trade union movement began to reach poorer, unskilled workers .
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This was inpart due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers .
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For low-skilled or unskilled workers , Reich notes, technology is taking away jobs.
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Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband?
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Furthermore social surveys had shown that early marriage, by unskilled workers could lead to poverty and destitution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unskilled labor
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled , the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.
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Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled , all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
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Members of this, the larger group of temporary workers, were most likely to be unskilled or semi-skilled.
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She traveled to Mississippi to help unskilled workers get jobs at shipyards in Pascagoula, the hometown of Lott.
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The demand for unskilled labor is going down; the pool of unskilled labor is growing...
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The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
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The result: a flooded unskilled labor market.
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This was inpart due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers.