paid labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpaidandlabour
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paid
adjective
uk/peɪd/us/peɪd/
being given money ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofpaidandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The relative cost ofpaidlabourhad almost doubled.
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For both these reasons, direct recruitment withpaidlabourofficers was not considered a serious option.
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One of the ways a household can acquire the income it needs is throughpaidlabour.
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How much income each member of the household needs to acquire throughpaidlabourwas determined in the following way.
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Even more, care policy is actually being used as an instrument to affect the demand forpaidlabour.
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He employs family orpaidlabourand in some areas may have access to draught power and tillage equipment.
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In each, the significance ofpaidlabourto the shaping of individual and collective identities is highlighted.
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To determine 'necessary time inpaidlabour', we basically just divide how much money each individual thus needs to earn by that individual's wage rate.
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As current cohorts of young couples both engage in thepaidlabourforce, many are now torn between the competing demands of work and family.
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A major disadvantage of legume crops is the high labour requirement for handweeding and hand-harvesting, the latter usually requiringpaidlabour.
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He emphasizes that this latter important contribution became increasingly invisible with the rise of the individual wage system ofpaidlabour.
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In both cases, that represents a change of nearly ten hours a week in favour of parents going out topaidlabour.
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In households with dual earners, we apportion necessarypaidlabourresponsibilities between the earners in proportion to their actual present incomes.
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In those casespaidlabour, unpaid household labour, and personal care should be treated as instances of spare time or leisure.
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The relationship between women's participation in thepaidlabourforce and their fertility and contraceptive behaviour is commonly conceptualized in two ways.
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Highlypaidlabouris usually typical of an efficient industry.
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But if all adults are inpaidlabour, then the household's financial needs increase by the costs of child care for however long no adult is home.
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There are frequent gloomy forecasts about the decline of informal care due to the falling birth-rate and the increasing engagement of women in thepaidlabourmarket.
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In all the other countries, many (in some countries, most) categories of parents inpaidlabourare net losers in discretionary time terms from welfare-gender regime interventions.
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If a household incurs childcare costs in the course of meeting its income needs, adults in the household will need to acquire more income throughpaidlabour.
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Our measure of temporal autonomy, discretionary time, takes account of people's necessities in those three arenas of everyday life -paidlabour, unpaid household labour, and personal care.
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