seasonal labour

collocation in English

meaningsofseasonalandlabour

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seasonal
adjective
uk
/ˈsiː.zən.əl/us
/ˈsiː.zən.əl/
relating to or happening during a particular period in ...
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labour
noun
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofseasonalandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are 755 women in theseasonallabourforce.
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Most soughtseasonallabourwithout conceding any land.
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One described the process ofseasonallabourrecruitment in the following terms.
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The urban relatives mainly contributeseasonallabour, money, transport and marketing services.
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For lowland planters the debts were real, and the problems of enforcingseasonallabourcontracts remained.
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I cannot give any particulars with regard toseasonallabour.
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It should, however, be noted that the planters' control, through the kanganies, over the labourers' debts, was used in accordance with theseasonallabourrequirements.
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Both of these tasks are workintensive, resulting in labour bottlenecks that farmers have long combatted by employingseasonallabourmigrants (firdou).
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At the same time, even the booming coffee economy of the 1880s relied considerably more onseasonallabourthan on permanent workers.
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To assess theseasonallabourallocation of male family members, calendars of daily labour use were drawn up, based on open questions answered by the family head.
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The tenant in turn supplied all of the permanent labour, usually a share of theseasonallabour, all hand tools and sometimes a share of the livestock.
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The essential point at issue was that of meeting these vitalseasonallabourrequirements, and it is with this issue that the present article is substantially concerned.
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Three-quarters of theseasonallabourforce is made up by women, who by and large are engaged in weeding (these are known as mulheres de sacha).
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Certain operations are commenced in the autumn and require the employment ofseasonallabour.
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When the operation comes to an end, theseasonallabourgoes out of employment.
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It is required twice each year, but still it isseasonallabour.
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There has been no comparable decline in casual andseasonallabour.
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We have massive fruit interests and there is great use ofseasonallabourin the fields.
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Theseasonallabourforce produced 600 man-weeks, and volunteers 450 man-weeks.
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As a rule the payment made forseasonallabouris higher than that for regular work.
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During the summer these men work in other industries with a highseasonallabourrequirement.
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Whatever the difficulties have been in the past, it is now much easier to getseasonallabour.
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That has proved impossible, for every year, we notice thatseasonallabour, in particular, is carried out by illegal workers.
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