The phrase "abundant labour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a plentiful supply of work or workforce available.
Example: "The region's economy thrived due to the abundant labour provided by the local population."
Alternatives: "plentiful workforce" or "ample labor supply".
It was an era in which an abundance of initiative and capital was joined to abundant labour to make the widest use of new skills, cheap transport, and copious raw materials.
The poor countries, where many of the new democracies have flowered, are typically endowed with abundant labour but scarce capital.
But the likes of Bharat Forge and Mahindra & Mahindra prefer to employ sophisticated machinery rather than abundant labour.
Steamships, cheap transportation by rail and canal, abundant labour, and professional expertise made New York increasingly dominant.
In 2011 he galvanised Washington with "The Great Stagnation", in which he argued that America has used up the low-hanging fruit of free land, abundant labour and new technologies.
International investors in the forest products industry are their willing allies but they want to ascertain predictable macroeconomic conditions, transparent fiscal incentives and abundant labour – and preferably the rule of law and a sustainable wood supply to start with.
Trade liberalization and the distribution of income: 'the standard result of trade liberalization in economies that are abundant in labour and capital-scarce is that labour gains at the expense of capital owners... hence trade liberalization should redistribute income towards some poorer groups of people'.
4 In their analysis on poverty and the rural economy, Tomich, Kilby and Johnston (1995) focus on a particular subset of developing countries, namely countries with abundant rural labour, low income per capita, and low productivity of farm labor (which they refer to as CARLs).
Bangladesh is trading its only abundant resource, labour.
The road out of poverty, it says, must be linked to Africa's endowment of abundant cheap labour, land and minerals.
And the ratio of rents to wages rose in America, where land was abundant and labour was scarce, but fell in European countries such as Ireland and Sweden, where land was at a premium and there were plenty of people.
