(of work or a worker) having or needing some, but not extensive, training.
（工作，工人）半熟练的
assembly lines of semi-skilled workers
半熟练工人装配线。
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White collar status included professional/technical, managerial and clerical/sales workers while blue collar status included skilled and semi-skilled workers, service, and labourers.
Like women, the second-generation American-born men had moved slightly up the employment ladder to work as skilled and semi-skilled workers, foremen, or clerical workers.
It's semi-skilled labour, and a bit like outsourcing your accounts department to India at one-third of the cost.
Whereas in the heyday of the proletariat there was a bunching of semi-skilled workers in the centre, marginalizing skilled artisans and unskilled casual workers, now a line divided the working class through the middle.
The gulf between the labour aristocracy and the mass of unskilled or semi-skilled workers was virtually unbridgeable; but at the upper end of the social stratum the labour aristocracy merged with the lower middle class.
The public also wants completion of the University of the Highlands and Islands, a project that Roe sees as a vital key to luring and retaining skilled as well as semi-skilled workers.
What made possible the displacement of the skilled artisan by the semi-skilled worker was mechanization, and mechanization was necessary to step up productivity for wider markets.
The availability of masses of unskilled or semi-skilled workers was helpful in the past, but that leaves the country in a position where it always has to fight off others with still cheaper labor.
There are easy procedures for importing and exporting with competitive rates for skilled and semi-skilled workers.
It is also clear that there are nearly no new industrial jobs for semi-skilled workers in the near future, because there is no labour intensive industrial expansion in sight.
I know that it will be welcomed by the union movement, as unions have been concerned about skilled migrants who are forced into unskilled and semi-skilled work, undercutting wages and conditions of employment.
Basic pay is low, in most cases below $100 per month for semi-skilled workers.
Some 27 percent of those unskilled and semi-skilled workers said they had been in their job for less than 12 months.
The government should not lift the prohibition on sending semi-skilled workers overseas as long as the manpower ministry is unable to improve its poor delivery system, says a labor export service association.
The government gained the support of ‘Essex man’, the patriotic, Sun-reading, skilled or semi-skilled worker in new towns such as Basildon.
Historically unions have been a very important tool for improving low-wage and semi-skilled workers' earning power and then putting pressure on business to improve productivity at those levels to remain competitive.
He explained that it is these skilled and semi-skilled workers who form the teams that are often sent far and wide across the country to work.
Craftsmen constituted a little over half of those working in the industry, although the numbers of semi-skilled workers was also rising significantly.
For the most part, these schemes are structured toward short-term training designed to provide employers with a pool of cheap semi-skilled labour to fill mainly casual and part-time jobs.
Much of Europe's defense spending goes to keeping large numbers of semi-skilled soldiers under arms, rather than providing modern equipment or high-tech training.