Traditional manual work has disappeared and isn't coming back. I was watching our water company lay new pipe outside my house recently and there were no people wielding picks and shovels. There was a ton of technology involved though.

For rural employment to increase you would need to throw away all the technological progress from the last century. The country and economy would be unrecognisable from what it is now.

Same can be said about intellectual work.

The question is how post-industrialism wealth redistribution looks like, when work does not seem to be a good key.