Your argument was that they (rich white men) are reprehensible for desiring others to be doing something like factory work, instead of "that".
You say "that" is work, and not sitting around unemployed. Citing a statistic. Ok lets proceed with that.
So which work is "that"?
Apart from that, it's unclear why you're asking for examples of work that isn't factory work.
Unemployment was not even the issue in elections. It was inflation - buying power.
In short, citing unemployment is falling for the mother of all survivorship biases. If you're more interested in fake paperwork derived numbers than the actual world though, you do you then.
BLS employment measures are calculated from the Current Population Survey and the Current Employment Statistics. CPS is a bimonthly survey of a rolling population of 60000 households. CES is a monthly survey of over 100000 businesses.
They don't do it that way. I don't know if labor force participation measurements are more or less accurate from relying on survey data tho.