manual labor (noun)

1. During the construction of the Great Wall of China, thousands of workers engaged in manual labor to build the massive structure.

2. Why did the scarecrow get a promotion? Because he was outstanding in his field of manual labor!

3. In the film Cinderella, the main character is forced to perform manual labor as a servant to her stepmother and stepsisters.

4. In the novel Les Misérables, the protagonist Jean Valjean is sentenced to hard labor, which involves various forms of manual labor.