0 Industries and methods that are labour-intensive need a lot of workers:
A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.
1 if an industry, process, etc. is labour-intensive, it needs a lot of workers:
The service sector is more labour-intensive and less productive than manufacturing.
Converting shale oil to usable material takes a labor-intensive process that's very environmentally damaging.
The advantage of test scores is that they are not labour-intensive and tests can be easily administered to large groups.
Some labour-intensive tasks saw no mechanisation at all until very recently, most notably in routine hedging and ditching and in materials handling around the farmstead.
Machine-based mass production was overwhelmingly dominant in the major factories, and labour-intensive production retained a practical meaning only in combination with machine use.
The economic niche for medic pasture has been limited by (1) low farm wages favouring labour-intensive high-value crops and (2) price subsidies for wheat.
They also tend to use more labour-intensive fishing gears than the richer fishermen.
Also, these poor fishermen were more likely to use the labour-intensive fishing gears.
With adequate technical assistance, credit and marketing, small farmers could diversify into other labour-intensive crops such as vegetables, rice and tubers.
The expanded vegetable and other labour-intensive crops would replace part of the traditional crops as a source of cash income.
