Because it is often human input that makes the products of these industries valuable, cutting labour would be self-defeating.
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All successful adjustments in Latin America involved huge initial devaluations and immediate reductions in real wages, thus cutting unit labour costs.
MPs in safer areas, by cutting back Labour's representation in its own heartlands while helping Labour win new seats in the south-east.
One side-effect of the cost-cutting was a labour dispute in the summer of 1997, when short-haul cabin crews went on strike to protest against changes in their working patterns.
He is also working on cutting other taxes for labour-intensive industries, such as textiles and shoes.
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Labour said cutting nursery staff numbers could risk the quality of care.
That in turn would cause tax revenues for their governments to continue to shrink, such that reducing public-sector deficits would become a never-ending labour of cutting expenditure and raising taxes.
Such cost-cutting is hampered by restrictive labour laws, combative unions and politicians who see mass lay-offs as a threat to the social fabric.
In particular, cutting the taxes clogging up the labour market should create jobs.
Counter to Tory policy nationally, Wiltshire councillors agreed to abolish four district councils and merge into one unitary authority - saving a fortune in bureaucracy but cutting a deal with the then Labour government that none of its central funding would be reduced.
There was mass unemployment, that people who were at the bottom of society were really suffering, especially with the recessions, and Labour has focused on cutting unemployment and ensuring that there are good public services, and that's what we stand for, and that's what that's illustrating.
Mr Hombach reckons the Social Democratic Party did next to nothing to modernise during its 16 years of opposition and that it has a lot to learn now from Britain, especially on cutting taxes, shaking up the labour market and revamping social security to help create jobs.
At the last general election Labour made pledges on cutting primary school class sizes, introducing legislation for a Welsh Assembly in the first year, cutting NHS waiting lists by an extra 100, 000, getting 250, 000 under-25s off benefit and into work (around 13, 000 in Wales), and setting tough rules for government spending and borrowing.
Labour said the council was cutting too deeply and causing long-term damage.
The prime minister asserted the good work done by the Schemes and credited the Labour Government's achievements in cutting crime by increasing police numbers.
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Others don't like the idea of voting with Labour, whose recent enthusiasm for cutting the EU budget is regarded on the Conservative benches as rank opportunism.
The defence minister, Ehud Barak, who leads the Labour party, refuses to hear of cutting the military budget, an Israeli sacred cow.
It will not come down until the two countries loosen their labour markets' famously stiff joints by cutting minimum wages, making hiring and firing easier, reducing payroll taxes and so on.
To stop this happening, he said Labour should be investing in people, not cutting public spending.
The UK and other EU countries are committed to cutting emissions by 20% by 2020 although the last Labour government backed a target for an 80% reduction - excluding shipping and aviation - by 2050.
Opposition parties accused Labour of using "smoke and mirrors", cutting the economy minister's budget and being too timid.
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Labour says Mr Osborne is a dangerous ideologue, cutting public spending too deeply and ignoring warning signs of an economic slump in stubborn pursuit of what it says is his real goal, a smaller state.
If income is declining, which it is both because vacancy rates are rising and also because local councils are cutting the amounts they are willing to pay for care, labour is a fixed cost, then obviously rent needs to be reduced to avoid bankruptcy.
"We need to reduce taxes on the labour force, both on workers and companies, by cutting spending, " he said.
It has announced reforms of its rigid labour laws that may eventually go a long way towards cutting the country's chronically high unemployment.
Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray earlier accused the SNP administration of cutting 3, 000 teaching posts "in the good times" and leaving young graduates fighting for available jobs.
In October last year Bob Blizzard, ex Labour MP for Waveney, said the trust was looking at cutting the number of acute beds in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth from 42 to 20.
The biggest nightmare for Labour is: what if the Coalition are right, and cutting the state, reducing benefits and implementing austerity succeed where growing the state did not succeed: in promoting growth?
In Labour's second term, it has switched its priority to cutting long waits.
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Turning to his political opponents, Mr Salmond claimed Labour was arguing for more public spending, while the party was cutting it in London.
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