Imagine being a 45 or 50 year old man or woman who has supported the family by showing up each day for a factory shift only to find yourself now facing life after the factory has shut down in the face of a move offshore or as a result of an economy that put the owner out of business.
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With their passports confiscated by their employers and wages held at will, they feel they have no choice but to keep working to pay off the extensive loans they took to pay a recruiter to find their factory jobs.
"At that time, there were a lot of Apple people in my factory, telling us to find a solution, " said Mr. Tsai.
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However, we do not believe in terminating a factory because we find violations.
This 28-year-old glass factory worker wanted to find a job overseas that would better support his homeless family.
Firms may, however, find economies of scale at a level other than that of the factory floor.
In the past, Hakuta might find himself carrying a load of stainless-steel pipes from a factory in Tokyo's suburbs to Nagoya, only to return home empty-handed.
Thinking that somehow an errant file managed to make its way into the Maxx and corrupted the camera app, we performed a factory reset on the device, only to find that the program still wouldn't budge.
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The mayor of a town which has lost 250 jobs from the closure of a factory has said he is unsure whether staff will find other jobs.
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It is now possible to order a pickup truck with heated and ventilated leather seats, a hi-fi sound system and state of the art navigation, for a level of factory-delivered luxury that pickup owners could only find in the aftermarket just years ago.
India and Brazil and other developing economies knew that a trade deal would benefit their farmers while hurting their factory and bank owners, who would find it hard to compete against larger, more efficient American companies.
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