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There's no such thing as unskilled labor. Labor is labor, specially if someone else has to do it even if you don't want to.
I'd actually say it's the reverse, all labor is unskilled labor, but some of it takes previous unskilled labor to perform and is thus compressed.
That previous experience, efficiency, and effectiveness in carrying out the labor is the skill.
Nah, it's just compound labor. "Skill" is just the expressed form of training in current work, ie labor is only worth that which labor is required to replicate it.
The distinction between labor that requires significant existing training and labor that can learn on the job is a useful one. 'Skilled'/'unskilled' is really just a demeaning way of looking at how hard a given laborer would be to replace.
Whether a job must be done by someone one way or another is completely orthogonal. It's depressing how little value people place on the people who do what must be done. Child rearing is probably the archetypical example.