labour shortage

Shortage of labour power retarded our economic development.

缺乏劳动力使我们的经济发展速度减慢.

The technique of cultivation with broadcast sowing in winter wheat is a simplified cultivation technique of high yield to solve the problem of low yield for multiple cropping wheat in irrigated land and the shortage of labour force and animal power at sowing time.

小麦撒播栽培技术是为解决水地回茬麦产量低及播种时劳畜力紧张等问题而发展起来的一项简化栽培技术。

The labour shortage is becoming acute.

劳动力匮乏愈演愈烈。

A month ago the Mail revealed that a similar labour shortage had forced the UKs biggest sandwich manufacturer to recruit in Hungary because it could not fill its production line with local workers.

一个月前，《每日邮报》报道了英国最大的三明治工厂劳动力短缺而到匈牙利去招聘，因为在当地没有足够的工人开启产品线。

a shortage of skilled labour (= people who have had training in a skill)

缺乏技术工人

A shortage of migrant labour in southern Guandong province is worrying factory owners.

在南方的广东省,农民工短缺正引起工厂所有者的担忧.