labour-saving

“A labour-saving device for mariners, navigation reduced to kindergarten simplicity,” he answered gaily.

Chapter 10 2010

Had the Black Plague never came or was significantly less severe as to not disrupt the social order then Western progress may never have happened as there would have plenty of people to keep wages low and have no one to have an incentive to look at labour-saving machinery.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Narrow-Mindedness of Zero-Sum Thinking 2009

Closing libraries to save money is like cutting off the blood supply to the brain as a labour-saving device for the heart.

Letters: Mr Vaizey, in the library, with the axe 2011

Mass immigration, however, does help employers, not only to keep their labour-cost significantly low, but also to spare them from having to invest in labour-saving methods of production.

Letters: Opening the door on the immigration debate 2011

Then, with the development of trading and capitalism, of exploration and exploitation of new lands, and with the invention of labour-saving machinery and the discovery and application of scientific principles, was brought about a tremendous increase in Europe's food-getting efficiency.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

If a man cannot enjoy the return of Spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?

george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?

‘Some Thoughts on the Common Toad’ « Gerry Canavan 2008

Lifts and escalators, and even labour-saving devices such as electric toothbrushes and can-openers added to the problem.

All Your Weight Gain Are Belong To Us 2008

Gershuny found plenty of evidence that since the 1960s, the advent of labour-saving devices has considerably reduced women's routine housework.

Time to escape 2010

Perhaps the most entertaining of these is inventing, where a visit to the junkyard yields the raw materials to turn into labour-saving tools such as hygiene sprays or even time machines.

The Sims 3: Ambitions 2010