How to distinguish between manual labor and mental labor?

The meaning of labor refers to the purposeful activities that people use certain production tools to act on the labor object and create material wealth and spiritual wealth.

Labor is the most basic condition for the existence and development of human society and plays a decisive role in the formation of human beings. Labor is a special form of human movement. In the commodity production system, labor is the expenditure and use of labor force.

Three basic types of labor

Manual labor: Manual labor refers to human labor that mainly focuses on the labor of human muscles and bones, supplemented by the labor of physiological systems such as the brain.

Mental labor: Mental labor refers to human labor which is mainly based on brain nervous system labor and supplemented by other physiological system labor.

Manual labor: Manual labor refers to other forms of human labor except manual labor and mental labor.

The general labor of human beings consists of different proportions of mental labor, physical labor and physiological labor. Generally speaking, mental labor refers to the compound labor in which mental labor accounts for the main proportion, physical labor refers to the compound labor in which physical labor accounts for the main proportion, and physiological labor refers to the compound labor in which physical labor accounts for the main proportion.

For example, although the production process of population is mainly manual labor, it is also accompanied by certain manual labor and mental labor.