The mill owners were looking for a way to replace the workers with unskilled labor, and needed an automatic mule, which did not need to be controlled by the spinner.

纺纱厂的老板们在寻找一种方法来取代没有熟练技术的工人，而且需要一种不需要纺纱工人操作的自动纺纱机。

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Textile mills or coal mines located in city A customarily obtain unskilled workers (perhaps indirectly through the agency of labor recruiters) from rural areas B and C.

位于A城的纺织厂或者煤矿厂通常从B、C两个农村地区获得不熟练工人（或许间接通过劳务中介结构）。

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Rich countries have relatively more skilled labor, so freer trade should raise the wages of skilled workers and lower the wages of the unskilled.

富有国家有相对较多的技术型劳动力，自由贸易应该提高技术型劳动力的薪水，降低非技术型劳动力的兴水。

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It has had to contend with a greedy middleman, unskilled workers, labor unrest, bad press and threatened suits.

FORBES: Labor Unrest

The mill owners were looking for a way to replace the workers with unskilled labor, and needed an automatic mule, which did not need to be controlled by the spinner.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.

FORBES: The Awful Minimum Wage