Generally, when automation and the use of technology go up, the need for
labourers go down, this is known as technological unemployment and is an old phenomenon.
Not exact matches
Selling 60 of the 68 lots offered, the top sale
went to Vincent Van Gogh's
Labourer dans un champ (1889) from the Nancy Lee and Perry Bass collection, which sold for $ 81.3 million with fees.
Prior to the first kerosene tractors, farm work was done using human and animal energy and most of the food produced on the farm
went to feed the human and animal
labourers — family labour, farm labour, draft horses, stock horses, cows, calves, pigs and chooks.
One advantage was that if a
labourer was evicted by a plantation owner or had to
go elsewhere for work, the home could easily be dismantled and moved.