American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
Seven million are laboring in fields, mines, factories and in domestic service or they have been trafficked.
Yet capitalism is not content with people only being laborers and holders of jobs, indistinguishable members of the masses punching in and out of mammoth factories or functioning as service employees in government agencies.
Many of these Americans proudly work in factories, hospitals, public service and other workplaces across the country.
Mothers and fathers are forced to work in fields and factories against their will or in service to debts that can never be repaid.
In the past two days, state employees revolted against their directors, and strikes erupted in a wide breadth of sectors postal workers, electricity staff and service technicians at the Suez Canal, in factories manufacturing textiles, steel and beverages and hospitals.
The civilian "Women Air Service Pilots" performed important military duties including ferrying combat aircraft from the factories where they were made to various air bases around the country.
The corporate labs, offices, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, retail outlets, customer service, repairing outlets, and finance and accounting departments exist because of me, to serve and accommodate my needs and desires.
It has already made one dramatic change: in the 1980s manufacturers moved their factories into southern China while Hong Kong itself was transformed into a service economy.
Furthermore, locating the factories in China's hinterland puts them in a better position to service China's growing domestic consumer market instead of exporting to consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The economist saw manufacturing output growth outpace service sector growth for the second quarter in a row, with a strong performance by factories in Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Russia.
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