Wiktionary
labor-intensive
a. Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
WordNet
labor-intensive
adj. requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive" [syn: labour-intensive]
Usage examples of "labor-intensive".
Such a labor-intensive hairstyle required several body servants and was a sign that the wearer was of higher status than even someone who could afford the finest of wigs.
It was labor-intensive, but viable because it spared the capital cost of robotization.
The driftbarge passed over geometric shapes like tattoos on the ground, carefully sectioned acreage for the labor-intensive farming of sweet cane.