Labor
Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Work force and labor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work force" instead a noun "Labor".
Work force
Work force noun - The force of workers available.
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Labor and work force are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Labor" instead a noun phrase "Work force".
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- The armed forces of the Soviet Union was notorious for using conscripts as a very underpaid work force for civilian work, such as building railroads, collecting harvest, demolishing buildings etc.-and often suffering from the expected abuses of corruption and quality expected with untrained labor.
Source: Conscription -
They also placed price and wage controls on the economy, cartelized industries, and the work force was strictly controlled by the government Labor Front when unions were banned, with Four-Year Plans to rival the Five-Year Plans of the Soviet Union.
Source: Useful Notes / Nazi Germany
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