他们靠出卖劳动力为生,当市场拒绝了他们的时候他们就得面对苦日子。
They lived by selling their Labour and when markets turned down they faced hard times.
契约是使人们以向新大陆的某个雇主在一段时间里出卖劳动力的方式来支付其赴美旅费的手段。
The indenture contract was a device that enabled people to pay for their passage to America by selling their labor to someone in the New World for a specified period of time.
只有当雇员们的期望得到充分满足、物价一如预期以及他们不再虚假的出卖劳动力后,经济才将会重新趋于均衡。
The economy will recover its equilibrium only when workers' expectations are fulfilled, prices turn out as anticipated, and they no longer sell their Labour under false pretences.
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