There are no factories in North Korea just across the border so we knew there would be clean air.
Handspring, the company behind the Visor personal digital assistant, followed the Cisco model from the start: It has no factories of its own.
But he also understands the wider economic benefit that could come if fracking creates jobs where there are no factories or Wal-Marts the biggest employers are two prisons near Vienna and the school systems.
At this moment, factories no longer want to finance inventory, even though interest rates are coming down.
"Garments factories are no longer like they used to be, " said BGMEA Vice-President Shahidullah Azim.
Teenagers 14 to 18 years old can work during the day in factories but no more than 36 hours a week.
Although most factories have no shortage of applicants, that is not good enough for such activists as Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange.
There is relatively little knowledge in terms of international standards for social compliance and there are currently no SA8000-certified factories in Myanmar.
"It is not helpful for a retailer or brand to simply publish a list of factories they no longer work with, " said Richard Locke, a professor of political science and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is working on several projects related to globalization and labor standards.
Now, pay is supposed to be linked to output, though becoming more productive is not easy for desk-bound civil servants or workers in factories that have no power, raw materials or markets.
On Tuesday, administrators KPMG said it had no alternative but to close the factories.
Foreign investors, for their part, have needed no prompting to pour money into factories in developing countries, especially China.
But its perverse incentives also led to factories churning out stuff no one wanted, while shops were empty of the things they craved, from fresh meat to fridges.
But without it, there will be no burgeoning of the job-creating factories that India needs, making clothes, handicrafts, shoes, processed food and so on.
Global Times says internet users are sceptical over claims by authorities in Weifang, Shandong province, that they found no evidence to support online allegations that chemical factories are discharging untreated wastewater underground.
Levi Strauss no longer produces garments in multistory facilities that have factories with different owners in the building.
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Landgrabbing--building infrastructure, housing and factories without any compensation (there is no private land ownership, but the farmer has a lifelong lease)--is a major source of revolt as well, everywhere, due to China's very development.
Those few miners that were lucky to find other jobs were joining temporary employment agencies with no guarantee of regular income or the local textile factories where wages were far lower than they had earned in the mining industry.
When China so often seems indifferent to the rape of its own countryside or to working conditions in factories and mines at home, there may be no reason to expect it to foster better conditions abroad.
Leverkusen, Germany-based Bayer has increased production by 25% at factories in America and Germany to make sure there is no shortage of the drug.
So no one could buy the alumina to put through the big Russian aluminium factories to make aluminium.
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Such lax credit has allowed the chaebol to build recklessly huge factories, and to diversify into businesses in which they have no expertise.
They no longer die in chimneys or labour long hours on the land or in factories.
There's no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains, or the new factories that manufacture clean energy products.
So first up on the list -- it makes absolutely no sense that we actually give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs and factories overseas.
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It is also no accident that Gary, Indiana, is near Chicago and those rather aesthetically thrilling factories off the New Jersey Turnpike are right outside New York City ...
Number one, it still makes no sense for us to be giving tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs and factories overseas.
Initially the problem appeared to be confined to two processing factories in the Republic of Ireland and one in Yorkshire, but there was no risk to human health, as the FSAI and others were quick to point out.
"There is no chance this will be sustained unless major brands and retailers commit to raise prices so factories can afford the renovations that are essential to prevent future disasters, " said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a monitoring group in Washington.
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