labour intensive process
1labour-intensive — ˌlabour inˈtensive , labor intensive adjective COMMERCE MANUFACTURING needing a lot of workers in order to produce something: • The company was using old, labour intensive production methods. • Whereas goods production can be automated, the… …
2labour-intensive — adjective requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital cottage industries are labor intensive • Syn: ↑labor intensive • Similar to: ↑effortful * * * laˈbour intensˈive adjective Requiring a relatively large number of workers for… …
3labour-intensive — UK / US adjective business a labour intensive industry or process needs a lot of people to do the work …
4labour-intensive — Denoting an industry, company, production process, or project in which the remuneration paid to employees represents a high proportion of the total costs. Compare capital intensive …
5labour economics — Study of how workers are allocated among jobs, how their rates of pay are determined, and how their efficiency is affected by various factors. The labour force of a country includes all those who work for gain in any capacity as well as those who …
6Labour — n. & v. (US, Austral. labor) n. 1 a physical or mental work; exertion; toil. b such work considered as supplying the needs of a community. 2 a workers, esp. manual, considered as a class or political force (a dispute between capital and labour).… …
7labour — n. & v. (US, Austral. labor) n. 1 a physical or mental work; exertion; toil. b such work considered as supplying the needs of a community. 2 a workers, esp. manual, considered as a class or political force (a dispute between capital and labour).… …
8labour, division of — the separation of a work process into a number of tasks, with each task performed by a separate person or group of persons. It is most often applied to systems of mass production and is one of the basic organizing principles of the assembly …
9Criticisms of the labour theory of value — often arise from an economic criticism of Marxism. Contents 1 Microeconomic theory 2 Supply and demand 3 Jevons 4 Menger s critique …
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