Sentence examples for spare labour from inspiring English sources

For, bar a slump, the United States has neither the industrial capacity nor spare labour to eliminate its trade deficit in the short term.

Exporting surplus labour spares the struggling economy the need to suffer falling wages.If instead the struggling region is facing weak domestic demand (resulting from a housing crash, for instance, or a bout of fiscal austerity as is the case in the euro zone) then shipping excess labour abroad does not help, because the loss of migrants' spending further weakens demand.

Huge amounts of surplus labour and spare capacity threaten to entrench deflation.

Publishing their plans could also free Labour to attack Tory inconsistencies over spending, with rightwingers irritated that health and aid budgets will be spared.

This time, any spare London Labour feet will be pounding the streets of such as Croydon Central or Harrow East, while Khan's volunteers will be helping out across the border in Battersea.

The weak were spared heavy labour but got a smaller ration of corn soup.

Both usages imply an antipathy to urban dwellers who were spared the labour of agricultural work.

This book is not for the faint-hearted: no nuance of the battles for Lambeth's housing department in the 70s is spared, or Labour's tactics to win the 1981 Greater London Council election which turned him into a household name – or, more recently, his struggle to rebut efforts to portray him as a bigot and his mayoral administration as corrupt.

Corbyn made it on to the ballot with just minutes to spare, as several Labour MPs gave him their nominations to ensure members could vote on a wide field of candidates.

It has only recently been revealed that in order to try to spare the dying Labour MP Sir Alfred Broughton from being brought into the Commons for the vote of confidence which precipitated the 1979 general election, Harrison approached his opposite number in the Conservative whips' office, Bernard Jack Weatherillll.

He worked as a construction worker and, in his spare time, a labour organiser.