Sentence examples for diversion of labour from inspiring English sources

Horrific as it was, with its cannibalism and people eating mud in search of sustenance, the famine generated by the Great Leap's failure and the diversion of labour from farming was only part of a saga of oppression, cruelty and lies on a gargantuan scale.

The inefficiency of the communes and the large-scale diversion of farm labour into small-scale industry disrupted China's agriculture seriously, and three consecutive years of natural calamities added to what quickly turned into a national disaster; in all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.

The main labour-union federation, CGT, remained officially committed to revolutionary syndicalism; it rejected political action as a useless diversion of the proletariat's energies and exalted the idea of the general strike as the proper weapon to destroy bourgeois society.

The report concludes: "The legacy of job loss [after the miners' strike] continued to be substantial unemployment and in particular a very large diversion of working-age men out of the labour market into 'economic inactivity', often on incapacity benefits".

Take the example of labour.

His critique of Labour was powerful too.

Another section of Labour believes the opposite.

Only 10% believe the same of Labour.

Another problem is a shortage of labour.

Value of labour will collapse.

Online labour platforms thus facilitate clients in connecting with a largely unregulated global oversupply of labour".