To compete with "cheap labor," say they, we must have "cheap labor.
In fact, "cheap labor" is, with them, the great sine qua non of all national industry.
It were a trifling matter to have the stone-breaking done by machinery, as in the United States; but we have such a mass of cheap labor-power that the machine would not "pay.
An American factory owner in Osaka, summing up his Job's trials with raw Japanese labor, used exactly my own phrase in a newspaper article a few days ago, "Cheap labor is never cheap.
Dependent on cheap labor, which the bulldozing whites will not readily furnish, the wealthy southerners must finally reach the position of regarding themselves and the negroes as having a community of interests which each must promote.
The South gets no immigration, but the negro has been an ever present source of cheap labor.
The New York Globe[165] said that: For more than a year a migration of men and women of color to northern States has been going on that has already deprived thousands of southern farmers of cheap labor.
Then there could have been no cheap labor, and the boon which we now know to be the greatest vouchsafed to man could not be enjoyed.
He lamented the narrow-mindedness of the projectors, and predicted it would not work; that the little Lowell could never compete with such highly developed cities as Manchester and Preston, where they knew the magic of "cheap labor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheap labor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
