unpaid labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunpaidandlabour
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unpaid
adjective
uk/ʌnˈpeɪd/us/ʌnˈpeɪd/
An unpaid debt, tax, etc. has not ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofunpaidandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An additional relevant consideration is the demand for and supply of paid andunpaidlabour.
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Even those who suppliedunpaidlabourmust have been aware that it assisted in settling debts.
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The latter also considers theunpaidlabourundertaken by women, recognising that housework is actually work (p. 147).
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Women from poor farming households provideunpaidlabourand suffer the drudgery of hand weeding to obtain higher yields.
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In the economy of the performance, the scene showed that the young men are forced to performunpaidlabour, which they do not do wholeheartedly.
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Creoles were interested in taking over them because they could exploit the indigenous sector, usurp community lands and demandunpaidlabour.
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Men and women beyond retirement age engage in a variety of paid andunpaidlabourbut the choices involved are mediated by social location and life history.
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The farmer, moreover, has in very many instances been assisted by what is actuallyunpaidlabour.
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That wealth was theunpaidlabourof the men who made it.
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One was that it was utterly illegal to have compulsoryunpaidlabour.
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Markets depend on thatunpaidlabourto function at all.
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The financial institutions of this country invested abroad £30,000 million from theunpaidlabourof working people.
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Up to the beginning of this year, licences were not required for houses built byunpaidlabour.
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We have theunpaidlabourof countless thousands of poor men, and we have the rising youth of the land.
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In other forces, there remains an implication that they areunpaidlabour, and the regular officers are slightly stand-offish.
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I fear there are also a great many children forced to dounpaidlabouron building sites, at the risk of their lives.
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The involvement ofunpaidlabourin our country's economy is extraordinarily deep, and we certainly could not run for one moment without it.
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I think it is particularly unfortunate that no longer are we to be permitted to disregard the cost of materials used byunpaidlabour.
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This exception only applied to work on private dwellings, and did not allow the use ofunpaidlabouron other premises.
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The main point which has been made refers to theunpaidlabourclause 1 would like to say a word or two about that.
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Fourthly, in counting whether such cases come within the £10 limit or not, no assessment is to be made for the value of theunpaidlabour.
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