Sentence examples for a surplus of labour from inspiring English sources

A surplus of labour keeps wages down, yet consumption grows because prices fall.

It seems then that America has a surplus of low-wage labour.

There was a vast and increasing surplus of labour in the Russian villages.

This means that outsourcing hotspots like Bangladesh – now second only to China in the "cut, make and trim" (CMT) clothes-making process – with a surplus of cheap (mainly female) labour, is now engaged in produced fashion when at best it has capacity for basic garments with longer lead times.

This was especially true of central Russia, where the surplus of labour kept wages down to the minimum.

For one thing, if development is to occur, agriculture must be able to produce a surplus of food to maintain the growing nonagricultural labour force.

He also claimed that – contrary to Labour predictions – the deficit was falling, and would end with a surplus of £23bn at the end of the next parliament.

Corbyn's speech at the Labour Annual Conference was his best performance to date, but he still demonstrates a surplus of the wrong kind of experience.

"Labour sees no compelling case for privatisation of a government agency which returned a surplus of £98.8m to the Treasury last year," he wrote.

That yields a surplus of $1.86 trillion.

Tennis has had a surplus of comebacks.