A good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction

The first century BC engineer Vitruvius writes in detail about laborer practices at that time. In his experience a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction.

An important characteristic of labor is the fact that it is segmented.  That is, it is divided into relatively highly skilled and well paying jobs, and supposedly less skilled, low paying jobs.  The implication of this of often missed by people who speak about "eliminating poverty"; if this division always exists (and it will as long as there are industries that depend on cheap labor for their survival), then there must always be an underpaid and overexploited group.  The identity of this class of workers may change, as it did in the United States.  But regardless of the identity of these workers, as long as there is a need for cheap and overworked labor, and as long as there are more people than jobs, the unemployed and underemployed will always be with us.

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