wasted labor

What does she think, that the Walton family is living in some hidden room in the back of the store, in the utmost frugality, and likely to be ruined by $21 worth of wasted labor?

"We slip on deliveries, manpower costs, wasted labor and idle machines."

I knew it was wasted labor, because whoever had found the pocket wouldn’t have stopped until he had cleaned it up.

Merely to watch me was wasted labor.

Quite apart from the wasted labor of bank-clerks and the waste of banking capital, the effect of increasing bank-development, on quantity theory reasoning, is harmful.