Collocations withlabour
These are words often used in combination withlabour.
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agricultural labour
The increase in agricultural capital raises agricultural labour productivity.
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bonded labour
This process of asset transfer, looting and self-liquidation, like that of debt and bonded labour, is intimately connected with the logic and operation of aid.
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cheap labour
In order to exploit the tropical rent, abundant and cheap labour was required.
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civilian labour
In favour of employing military and civilian labour?
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collective labour
Overshadowed by conflicts over collective labour law, the political significance of this legislation has remained unexplored.
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compulsory labour
Not only were the violators not punished, but local officials stopped convening meetings or demanding compulsory labour, as though they had abdicated their authority.
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convict labour
Different types of labour were used to complete this task: convict labour-who had been given hard labour as part of their prison sentence.
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hired labour
Here, as elsewhere, the use of hired labour is restricted because of lack of sufficient capital to cover the wage bill.
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immigrant labour
And yet we managed without immigrant labour.
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imported labour
Imported labour usually brings its womenfolk with them into jute and cotton mills but in the majority of cases are not the wives of the men with whom they live.
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labour inspector
It is because of that sort of state of affairs that since the labour inspector was appointed, we have given him six assistant labour inspectors.
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labour legislation
Until the late nineteenth century the labour legislation demanded compulsory service for propertyless adults, such as agricultural and domestic workers.
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labour migration
The second is labour migration, and particularly that of children.
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labour participation
While middle class visiting and telephone contact has fallen, due to increased geographical mobility and women's labour participation, working class contact has risen.
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labour pool
If a farmer is foreclosed, he loses his land and enters the labour pool.
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labour productivity
The increase in agricultural capital raises agricultural labour productivity.
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labour requirement
However, the family labour requirement at this time was relatively high, and hired labour most expensive.
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labour shortage
Rather, a labour shortage was holding back further expansion of the rubber, palm oil and timber export industries.
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labour unrest
This article investigates the hitherto unexplored domain of the impact of the policies of the colonial state at various levels on labour unrest and growing communal tension among workers.
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low-cost labour
A number of low-cost labour markets that are anxious to secure manufacturing development are emerging.
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manual labour
The work proceeded with bulldozers and manual labour.
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migrant labour
Much of it is focused on the issues of increasing commercialisation and changing patterns of hired migrant labour.
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non-union labour
Even non-union labour is engaged in preference to him.
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organization of labour
This great change in the organization of labour had not occurred without difficulty.
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paid labour
The relative cost of paid labour had almost doubled.
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physical labour
All physical labour was considered permanently unskilled.
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premature labour
We speculate that this contribution of stretch to myometrial activation may underlie the increased incidence of premature labour in pregnancies complicated by multiple fetuses.
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prison labour
However, using prison labour for profit was condemned because prison was supposed to teach criminals the irrationality of their behaviour.
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productive labour
No longer regarded as productive labour, women's work in the home was devalued.
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provision of labour
Throughout the history of the docks since the war there has been this division between the provision of capital and the provision of labour.
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reduced labour
Fortunately, we can obtain useful results there, but with much reduced labour.
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seasonal labour
There are 755 women in the seasonal labour force.
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semi-skilled labour
This was a form of semi-skilled labour migration entirely organized by private firms, without any state intervention.
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skilled labour
Boys were distinguished from women and children in terms of training the skilled labour of men.
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standard of labour
There was a mass attack upon the standard of labour at that time.
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temporary labour
Entrants can wrongly be regarded as cheap, temporary labour.
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unpaid labour
An additional relevant consideration is the demand for and supply of paid and unpaid labour.
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unproductive labour
By doing so an army of unproductive labour would be released.
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unskilled labour
Unskilled labour was recruited locally.
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