| 单词 | migrant labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmigrant labour migrant labour n. (a) a workforce which travels from place to place in search of (temporary) employment, or is recruited for such employment, usually to an urban from a rural area; the existence or exploitation of such a workforce; (b) South African spec. the black labour force working under the migrant labour system; the system under which such workers are employed (cf. migrant labour system n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > collectively casual labour1851 migratory labour1868 togt1901 migrant labour1913 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 19 110 Dr. Hourwich seems to think our prosperity has been conditioned by the mobility of migrant labor. 1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 37/1 Migrant labour tends to be casual and to produce less and earn less than stable labour. 1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound ii. 40 Many youths looked forward to migrant labour as an exciting liberation from parental and gerontocratic control. 1990 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 8 July 18/7 Migrant labour was not a creation of apartheid. It was started by the mine bosses in Johannesburg in the 1890s to secure cheap labour for the gold mines. < as lemmas |
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