wasted labor

Example Sentences

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"We slip on deliveries, manpower costs, wasted labor and idle machines."

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2012

Daylight-saving time costs this country $100 billion a year in missed meetings and wasted labor reprogramming VCRs.

From Time Magazine Archive

What does she think, that the Walton family is living in some hidden room in the back of the store, in the utmost frugality, and likely to be ruined by $21 worth of wasted labor?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

It was the sense of wasted labor that oppressed her; of two lives consumed in that ruthless process that uses generations of effort to build a single cell.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

This wasted labor does not count in measuring value.

From Socialism: Positive and Negative by La Monte, Robert Rives