skilled labor
labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
the workers employed in such labor.
Origin of skilled labor
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How to use skilled labor in a sentence
We are suffering from shortages of skilled labor while women who have those skills are unable to work.
The Pandemic Is Creating an Opportunity to Bring More Women Into India's Workforce | N. Chandrasekaran | August 12, 2021 | TimeSecondly, we don’t think of it as skilled labor like construction.
Workers receive a skill-based education that often places them directly in well-paying jobs, and employers benefit by recruiting and retaining a skilled labor force.
Will there be enough good jobs? | Laura D’Andrea Tyson, PhD ’74 | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewWhat a lost opportunity to employ and train Somalis and build out a skilled labor sector.
Building one of these beauties takes 604 hours of highly skilled labor.
Savoir Beds’ Royal State Bed: Just Perfect, If You Have $175,000 | Daniel Gross | June 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The number of jobs requiring high-skilled labor has declined.
Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop | Megan McArdle | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFurnished all the brain power anyway, and skilled labor outranks muscle at any time.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondIn his first great mill strike Colonel Harris lost most of his skilled labor and the profits of half a year.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. BoltonThe proper solution of the skilled labor problem is strictly within the power of the individual Negro.
The Negro Problem | Booker T. Washington, et al.The farm laborer finds himself advanced to the ranks of skilled labor.
American Inventions and Inventors | William A. MowryThats what takes the blood out of a man, the everlasting wrench of trying to get skilled labor that is skilled.
The Wayfarers | Mary Stewart Cutting
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