Among these the dominant categories were merchants (38 per cent), machinists (31 per cent), skilled or semi-skilled artisans (13 per cent) and professionals (9 per cent).
This was a sample of working-class couples : all but one husband had worked in unskilled or semi-skilled manual occupations and 18 couples lived in local authority rented flats.
If we turn to another class of busker, the musically un- or semi-skilled (as judged by repertoire and technical ability), we see similar status negotiations at play.
Classes 6 and 7, for example, may be under-represented, though the difference here may also mean that fewer men of 47 are employed as semi-skilled or unskilled manual workers.
The ' civilized labour policy ' did not require raising the wages paid to semi-skilled or skilled workers, because poverty among white people was rarely due to low wages.
By the end of 1919 there were twelve industrial settlements, with a total population of 4,583, and most had become suppliers of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
This is taken as the market value of replacing the labour of the carer when that person is engaged in semi-skilled caring tasks such as bathing and dressing.
When in paid-work, the majority had been employed in service occupations, manual work, or semi-skilled and skilled work in the tailoring and engineering trades.
