That will allow China to move up the value chain and redeploy its labor force away from assembling high tech products and sewing fabric together.
Labor gaveth, capital tooketh away in part due to the significant shift to globalization and the utilization of cheaper emerging market labor.
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Subsidies waste resources because they re-direct land, labor, and capital away from higher-value and toward lower-value uses.
With Labor just one seat away from losing its majority, war is imminent, and he is therefore in a state of maximum readiness.
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With auto labor negotations a few months away, it's suddenly make-nice-with-the-union time in Detroit.
States can balance their budgets, therefore, without reducing services, by cutting public sector salaries and shifting away from unionized labor.
"I'm blown away by the labor it must have involved, " he said, noting that it was probably a school project.
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China still has cheap labor in its interior, away from its developed coastal cities, and productivity gains could mitigate higher wage costs.
George also opined that the salvage value of the component materials of the house was minimal and would be offset by the labor cost of hauling them away.
Personal computing and the Internet have been pecking away at the labor landscape for decades, undermining demand for everyone from travel agents to call-center workers while creating jobs in other fields.
Expect increased labor unrest as higher prices eat away at the purchasing power of paychecks.
Gabriel always worked full-time while attending college and now is reaping the benefits of his labor and is just one course away from completing his AAS in Web Graphic Design with a bright future ahead.
Remarkably, our allies don't seem willing to make the needed structural changes--slashing suffocating taxes, blasting away at job-killing labor laws and reforming initiative-stifling welfare policies--to spark genuine growth.
General Motors is still a year away from negotiating a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers, but already the new chief executive, Daniel Akerson, is offering a message of goodwill.
The doctors wanted to start treatment right away, and that meant inducing labor to get the baby out.
However, almost a quarter of the senior women said they relied on a spouse to be the primary parent, which may represent a rising trend away from the traditional division of labor.
Now that Jobs has passed away and there is heightened scrutiny of harsh labor conditions however, the company will have to shift its strategy.
Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.
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Mr. STEWARD ACUFF (AFL-CIO): The economy is growing in different directions and it's growing away from the traditional foundation of the American labor movement, which is manufacturing and heavy industry.
He was Assistant Secretary of Labor and attended because the Secretary and Under-Secretary were away.
We will continue to labor under the weight of the misapprehensions that are keeping us away from a good monetary order so long as the established commentators and the Ph.
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House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri) has recently come out against the trade pact, and organized labor is also opposed, saying the agreement would take jobs away from American workers.
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And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
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Two key factors that can drive investment away from the United States are corporate tax policy and labor unions.
In recent years Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and other drug giants have moved away from screening natural compounds, which is unpredictable and labor intensive, in favor of automation.
In 2005, SEIU broke away from the AFL-CIO to form part of a new labor federation, Change to Win.
Fans, now long accustomed to labor disputes, always come back, no matter how much they vow to stay away.
"This is the first time a substantial body of workers is splitting away" from the ANC's union, said Devan Pillay, a labor-relations professor at Wits University.
Of course, proposing few initial layoffs has a strategic purpose--helping the deal gain regulatory approval and backing from labor unions: A proposal that calls for no hub closings and little job loss takes away a common objection.
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