The phrase "a labor system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the organization or structure of work and employment practices within a specific context, such as economics or sociology.
Example: "The study focused on the evolution of a labor system in the industrial sector over the past century."
Alternatives: "an employment framework" or "a workforce model."
Slavery was not so much a labor system as it was a property regime, with slaves serving not just as workers, but as commodities.
While the upper South's slave masters hoped this "demographic reconfiguration" would deliver them from evil, those of the lower South placed their trust in an "ideological reconfiguration" of a labor system that they hardly considered an evil.
Placing race at the center of New England history, Melish contends that slavery was important not only as a labor system but also as an institutionalized set of relations.
At the center of the problem is a labor system that relies on young migrant workers, who often leave small rural villages for two- or three-year stints at factories, where they hope to earn enough to return home to start families.
The beneficiaries are the senior scientists and universities dependent on federal grants and a nation that wants important research done but has not devised a labor system fair to the young scientists it asks to do the actual work.
Most Americans want a labor system that treats workers with fairness and respect.
However, these efforts to construct a foundation for a free labor system in the South which were not necessarily motivated by a desire to compensate the former slaves for expropriated labor were later reversed or defeated.
The proposition is pretty sane and simple, from a workers' standpoint: The sex trade, like many other "legal" jobs, falls on a wide spectrum of exploitation within a capitalist labor system.
The players believe if they continue to play but don't have an agreement when the World Series ends, the clubs will declare an impasse in negotiations and implement a new labor system.
In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.
Instead, we do better treating such sentiments as the legacy of a migrant labor system that overtly used foreigners to undermine local wages and political activism.
