Mechanized production processes now allow for the mass production of products such as foie gras, which historically required labor-intensive methods.

They also lack scalability and often rely on labor-intensive methods.

Volunteers for Steel and Tran have mounted labor-intensive campaigns to find those voters and get them to turn in their forms.

Another Yakima Valley claim to fame is superlative Mexican food, thanks to immigrant families who power the labor-intensive business of fruit picking and packing.

The search for new, more efficient materials involving complex chemical compositions has been labor-intensive, requiring experimental testing of each proposed new multi-material composition, and has often involved the use of toxic or rare elements.