stoop labor

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noun

the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.

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Origin of stoop labor

First recorded in 1945–50

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.
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Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
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The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
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Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.
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Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.
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stoop labor

Back-bending manual work, especially farm work. For example, They had us picking peas all day, and that's too much stoop labor. [First half of 1900s]