Sentence examples for labor less from inspiring English sources

Withered men pull overloaded carts, their labor less costly than the price of a donkey.

Output, in effect, rose more slowly than the number of hours worked, making labor less productive.

Inexpensive labor — less than $400 a month — and the economies of scale created by completing 20 miles of subway lines a year have driven costs down.

As male doctors took over from female midwives, birthing chairs got higher, making labor less comfortable for the woman undergoing it, who could no longer brace herself against the floor, and more comfortable for the doctor, who didn't have to stoop.

To make its prices still more competitive for assembly, Taiwan's computer industry is tapping China's cheaper labor (less than 15% of Taiwan's wages) and land costs.

Levinas again reframes labor, less as mastery and humanization of nature, and more as the creation of a store of goods with which an other can be welcomed.

Relatively short labors less than 12 hours in length may result in a fistula if the conditions for "a perfect storm" are present [ 7].

The prison labor became less and less important to industry and to corporations.

Wouldn't the ultimate outcome of a labor-less society be some sort of technologically induced, universal equality?

For control freaks like me, Labor Day weekend actually requires a great deal of labor to appear labor-less for the broods we love.

Keen consumers of pop culture, accustomed to the exploits of dashing female investigators, from Dana Scully and Clarice Starling to Kima Greggs and Cagney & Lacey, might be disappointed to know that as recently as 2010, according to the Department of Labor, less than a quarter of real detectives were women.