In the French scale of priorities, the colony of Chad ranked near the bottom, and the French came to perceive Chad primarily as a source of raw cotton and untrained labour to be used in the more productive colonies to the south.

The division of labour makes trade necessary and is the source of economic interdependence.

The Grand Duchy had also become a vital source of raw materials, industrial products, food, and labour for the growing capital city of Russia.

Marx called the difference " surplus value " and argued that this surplus value had its source in surplus labour, the difference between what it costs to keep workers alive and what they can produce.

Since Marx believed that surplus value appropriated from labour is the source of profits, he concluded that the rate of profit would fall even as the economy grew.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

Qatar is singled out as a source of good news, with the country adopting a new labour code which, although still below international standards, allowed for the establishment of free trade unions.

About 100 years ago, the Congo Free State in Africa was also a significant source of natural rubber latex, mostly gathered by forced labour.

Their incorporation into the order represents a compassionate outreach to the illiterate peasantry, as well as a source of labour on " unmanorialized " Cistercian lands.

In 1935 it was suggested that the title derived from a line in John Florio's His firste Fruites ( 1578 ), " We neede not speak so much of loue, al books are ful of lou, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue ", a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb Venetia, Venetia / Chi non ti vede non ti pretia

A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labour used with hand tools.

Aboriginal peoples were a source of labour for various institutions and enterprises from the time of the first pilot station.

In the late pre-colonial period ( late 19th century ), it was the metropolis of a plantation society, which became dependent on slave labour ( sources contradict whether the city was ever an important place for exporting slaves ) but ivory caravans remained a major source of economic prosperity.

Initially, the Autobahn project relied on the open labour market as a source of workers.

He appealed to conservatives and other sceptics by arguing that welfare institutions would increase the competitiveness of British industry in the post-war period, not only by shifting labour costs like healthcare and pensions out of corporate ledgers and onto the public account but also by producing healthier, wealthier and thus more motivated and productive workers who would also serve as a great source of demand for British goods.

This wrong impression produced an explosion of different techniques at who it was primarily aimed at rather ironically, the working population from where the inexhaustible supply of the professional criminal, labour power and political power all came from this particular group and inevitably become an invaluable source of discipline and punishment to the rest of society.

In Capital: Critique of Political Economy ( 1867 ), Karl Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of profit and surplus value.

Some 800 – 850 men were transported to the West Indies where they were worth more alive than dead as a source of cheap labour.

Regardless of source, chiefs were given the right to arm small numbers of guards and made responsible for the collection of taxes, the recruitment of forced labour, and the enforcement of " Customary Law ".

On the basis of enlightened self-interest, economy and ecology can favourably be combined: Environmental productivity, i. e. productive use of natural resources and environmental media ( air, water, soil, ecosystems ), can be a source of future growth and development in the same way as labour productivity and capital productivity.

In the classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and in its critique by Karl Marx, human labour is seen as the ultimate source of all new economic value.

Local quarries and businesses were in constant need of a new source of labour as more and more Austrians were drafted into the Wehrmacht.

( It has also been theorized that the mid-3rd century lacuna might actually be a deliberate literary device of the author or authors, saving the labour of covering Emperors for whom little source material may have been available.

The work camps also provided a source of labour for the construction of Henry's highway system.

Although trade unions in Benin represent up to 75 % of the formal workforce, the large informal economy has been noted by the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITCU ) to contain ongoing problems, including a lack of women's wage equality, the use of child labour, and the continuing issue of forced labour.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

At first the traders may have genuinely operated as labour recruiters, but they quickly turned to subterfuge and outright kidnapping to round up their human cargo.

The most revolutionary workers were bitter about the labour movement's decision to give up the political power that it had easily gained during the general strike.

The leaders of the White Guards faced a similar problem with drafting young men to the army in February 1918: 30, 000 obvious supporters of the Finnish labour movement never showed up.

Agricultural improvement began in the centuries before the Industrial revolution got going and it may have played a part in freeing up labour from the land to work in the new industrial mills of the 18th century.

These laws decreased the number of child labourers ; however, child labour remained in Europe and the United States up to the 20th century.

Philosophically opposed to the concept of an international parliament and convinced that international standards would lower the few protections achieved in the United States, Gompers proposed that the international labour body be authorized only to make recommendations, and that enforcement be left up to the League of Nations.

They set up coffee plantations, which required expensive machinery, a stable labour force, and four years to start growing crops.

For Marx, the possibility that one may give up ownership of one's own labour — one's capacity to transform the world — is tantamount to being alienated from one's own nature ; it is a spiritual loss.

This new alliance is made up of 56 nationwide and intercontinental labour unions.

In a modern translation from the original Hebrew, the passage in which the phrase " Lucifer " or " morning star " occurs begins with the statement: " On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labour forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end!

He has not prepared, and as a result ends up in a kind of institution, in which he must perform menial labour each day.

He also became a labour organiser, helping to set up workers ' strikes in the winter of 1920 – 1921.

This shows that the labour force is indeed largely made up of middle-aged workers.

The French originally settled the Seychelles in 1770, setting up plantations which relied heavily on slave labour to produce cotton, sugar, rice, and maize.

# The sale of local produce, e. g. palm kernels, to Europeans opened up a new sphere of economic activity ; in particular it crated an increased demand for agricultural labour ; slavery was a way of mobilising an agricultural work force.

At the start of 2000, then President Thabo Mbeki vowed to promote economic growth and foreign investment by relaxing restrictive labour laws, stepping up the pace of privatisation, and cutting unneeded governmental spending.

In Mauritania, the last country to abolish slavery ( in 1981 ), it is estimated that up to 600, 000 men, women and children, or 20 % of the population, are enslaved with many used as bonded labour.

As long as industry kept expanding by using new labour from the countryside, these inefficiencies could be covered up.

Adam Smith maintained that exchange value was made up of rent, profit, labour and the costs of wear and tear on the instruments of husbandry.

Much better is it oftentimes to grow wise at home and in private, than by publishing what you have amassed with infinite labour, to stir up tempests that may rob you of peace and quiet for the rest of your days.

Such massive constructions would have needed a large labour force – up to 200 men – suggestive of large communities nearby.