Sentence examples for vast labour from inspiring English sources

However, the extension of agriculture to non-suitable land in 1850 reflects deeper social conflicts, and required a vast labour investment in soil conservation by the poorest rural classes.

Managing the country's vast labour migration system, one of the assets that has enabled its prolonged growth, is essential to China's current growth model.

To cater for this massive, and almost exclusively male, presence the authorities have built a vast labour camp, reportedly equipped with sports, shopping and entertainment facilities.

The most obvious social changes of the Stalin period were that millions had perished in the antipeasant terror of 1930 33 and the general terror of 1936 39 and later, or barely survived in the vast labour camp system.

All the idea needed was an enthusiast.But for centuries the trade of the world had depended on there being a vast labour force at every port to handle goods in manageable quantities.

She's been listening to Margaret Drabble – which in turn has made her vow to read the Drabble books she's been missing out on – and Richard Flanagan, who spoke about the "vast labour" involved in writing a novel.

Yet just as US military cadets continue, in defiance of military reality, to sport swords on their dress uniforms, our leaders, both military and political, tend to cling to an idea of war as a vast, labour-intensive effort on the order of World War II.

That flow largely ceased after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, when Japanese firms began to focus on China's vast, cheap labour force.Yet with labour costs now steadily rising in China, and political tensions between Japan and China continuing to flare, South-East Asia looks attractive again.

The emergence of China and India, with their vast, cheap labour forces, has weighed on labour costs in the West, as well as keeping a lid on inflation and interest rates.

The government has also begun building vast new "labour cities" to house workers in more sanitary and less dangerous conditions, while also increasing the number of labour inspectors.

A vast, cheap labour force could go to work on road improvements, rainwater reservoirs, irrigation channels, dykes and community centres.