uncivilized labour, noun phrase
Obsolete except in historical contexts Derogatory and offensive. The labour provided by Black people. Cf. civilized labour.
1924 Prime Minister’s Circular No.5 in E. Hellmann Handbk on Race Rel. (1949) 152Uncivilized labour..[is] the labour rendered by persons whose aim is restricted to the bare requirements of the necessities of life as understood among barbarous and undeveloped peoples.
1969 A. Hepple S. Afr.: Workers under Apartheid 45The so-called ‘civilised labour’ policy..was first applied..when the Nationalist-Labour government of the day instructed state departments and provincial authorities to employ ‘civilised’ labour insted of ‘uncivilised’ labour, i.e. to employ whites and not Africans in unskilled jobs.
The labour provided by Black people.
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