Sentence examples for white labour from inspiring English sources
The campaign against employment and wage discrimination helped bridge the gap between the movement and white labour union women.
Three "majority-minority" seats are represented by white Labour MPs, and the top echelons of the local council are also dominated by whites.
It was in response to this that the "civilized labour" policy, which favoured employers using white labour, was devised in the 1920s.
An acute shortage of unskilled African labour was resolved by the importation of 60,000 Chinese, despite the bitter opposition of white workers, and ambitious schemes were hatched to reduce the cost of both black and white labour.
There was also no shortage of natural disasters preparing to strike at any time, from hurricanes to earthquakes.West Africans were thought to have a greater resistance to the heat and the tropical diseases so slaves began to replace indentured white labour in the plantations.
Lastly, given how much catching up the South had to do, the potential returns were higher than in the north.During the Jim Crow era, the South struck a "Devil's bargain" with the north, providing cheap white labour for northern-owned factories as the north turned a blind eye to segregation, says Jim Clinton, director of the Southern Growth Policies Board (SPGB), a think-tank.
Some of them even quit, and often as not walk straight into another job – a luxury enjoyed by tech employees in white-hot labour markets.
They can still get a retirement bonus equal to two years' salary, a relic of the white-hot labour markets of the 1960s and 1970s when Matsushita and many other firms promised the best graduates jobs for life.
Although today's white-hot labour market has dragged ever more poor people into work, it has only halted, rather than reversed, this decades-long decline in low-skilled earning power.
Without cheap non-white labour from the empire, Britain couldn't have afforded the welfare state of which we're so proud.
But so long as there is not a landslide victory for the Conservative party – seen as unlikely by respected psephologists – there are likely to be advances in the number of women and non-white Labour MPs.
