Sentences with phrase «pool of cheap labour»

It was effected in a range of ways: sheer force; the removal of children from their families; the withdrawal of «permissive occupancy» because titles to traditional lands had been granted to others and Aboriginal people no longer provided a useful pool of cheap labour; in many cases people were induced to move «voluntarily» to settlements and missions simply to gain access to food and basic services as competing land use destroyed the resource base of traditional life.