At the same time, the demand for educated labour is being reconfigured by technology, in much the same way that the demand for agricultural labour was reconfigured in the 19th century and that for factory labour in the 20th.
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One major obstacle that we faced when launching our first project back in Zhongshan was that local buyers and factory investors that were coming in from Hong Kong and Macau had limited purchasing power.
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The Mayor explained that the company that manufactures the cells had recently decided to open a factory in New Bedford, and that the factory could eventually provide a hundred jobs.
It plans to produce at least 20, 000 units of the Model S a year in a factory that once cranked out 10 times that many Toyotas and Pontiacs.
To put himself through design school, he worked as an apprentice--once severing part of a finger--in a factory that made molds for everything from automobile logos to eyeglass frames.
When it was announced in November that the factory would close, Ms Jones said it was a shock to workers as they had recently returned to full time hours.
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To put himself through design school, he worked as an apprentice--once severing part of a finger--in a factory that made molds for such things as automobile logos and eyeglass frames.
Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks.
There was a time when if you just got a high school education and you were willing to work hard, you could get a job in a trade or in the factory that paid a middle-class wage.
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When a boy lost an arm in the cog-wheels of a steam winch owned by Lord Wimborne, the courts ruled in a landmark judgment in 1898 that the factory boss had breached an absolute duty imposed on him by statute.
Manganese and Geely signed a joint venture agreement in 2006 and own a factory in Shanghai that produces taxis for the international market.
The horsemeat discovered on British dinner tables last week was (1) supplied by a Swedish frozen foods marketer that had (2) outsourced meal preparation to a French company that (3) operates a factory in Luxembourg that (4) uses meat imported, (5) via a Dutch agent, (6) from Romania.
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Last week's building collapse in Bangladesh that killed hundreds of clothing factory workers put a spotlight on the sobering fact that people in poor countries often risk their lives working in unsafe factories to make the cheap T-shirts and underwear that Westerners covet.
Hyundai, for example, confirmed that it would suspend construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland and a car factory in Indonesia (both measures that had already been announced), and postponed its founder's dream of building a steel plant.
However, Remy International, an electrical-engineering company based in Pendleton, Indiana, has stated that it plans to build another factory in America some time next year: but that in the absence of RTW legislation it will not build it in Indiana.
He said that in 1999 and 2000 Iraqi front companies had tried to buy a factory that produces magnets used in the process, and that Iraq had later sought machines that balance the gas-centrifuge rotors.
Cambodia has benefited in recent years from rising factory wages in China that have pushed some apparel retailers to look for cheaper places to source their products.
Apple said it has established new requirements for firms dealing with combustible dust after the blast in Chengdu and an explosion at another supplier's factory in Shanghai that injured 59.
He himself has recently been opening plants in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and sounding the death-knell for a factory in Britain that closed its doors last month.
One sign of positive economic growth is in the housing sector, with house prices still buoyant by recent standards, but elsewhere figures showed that factory activity in the US barely grew in April.
That June, Berman quit Blackwater, and within a few months he had opened a factory in Kuwait that produced a sinister-looking black armored vehicle, called the Rock, for security companies working in Iraq.
So truth be told, A123 was looking to build that factory in Asia.
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Despite the fact that these jobs were good factory jobs in China, and that they may simply lead to manufacturers to replace the workers with robots, consumers made a lot of noise over this and got Apple to subject itself to increased monitoring and pressed Foxconn into giving raises.
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Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that Ford also plans to shut a factory in Southampton, England, that makes chassis cabs for the Transit van.
Those benefits are not just the direct impact of jobs at the companies doing the spending, but, for instance, jobs in construction to build a new factory, or in the retail and restaurant businesses that can flourish when a big company opens a new office or factory.
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In October, Ford announced that it would cut 1, 400 jobs at its Southampton and Dagenham plants in the UK, as well as closing a factory in Genk in Belgium that employed 4, 300 workers.
In 2000 Ford Motor restructured a factory in Cologne, Germany so that Ford paid the equipment supplier, Germany's Eisenmann, for each completed car that rolled out of the factory.
On Wednesday it was reported that factory output in the 17 EU countries declined by 0.4% in January from December.
UN's help in building a new factory that will create 8, 000 jobs.
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The only problem is that I work in a factory all day, everyday, just to pay for the medications Adam needs to get by.
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