Rising Labour productivity is a common feature of the early stages of recovery, as employers respond to increases in demand by working staff harder and delaying new hiring.

劳工生产力的提高通常是经济初步复苏的特征，因为雇主为应对需求增长有所回应而使员工更加努力地工作，同时推迟雇佣新人。

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In India, child beggars and Labour are still common, though many are thought to be put in work by their own impoverished parents.

在印度，儿童乞丐和童工仍很常见，不过，据悉许多儿童是在自己穷困父母的指使下这样做的。

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The prejudices which they shared in common with the latter were fortified in themselves by an iron framework of reasoning, that made it a far tougher labour to expel them.

他们对海丝特所共同持有的偏见，被推论的铁框所禁锢，要想摆脱就得付出远为坚韧的努力。

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Anti-Slavery International's Beth Herzfeld told the BBC earlier this year that chattel slavery, involving a class of hereditary slaves, still existed in parts of Africa, and bonded labour remained common in South Asia.

BBC: Undated depiction of slaves in captivity

Labour unrest in China is more common than you may think.

ECONOMIST: China's labour market

Here it has much in common with Labour.

ECONOMIST: Poverty and inequality