Once all the available labour was already working in the factories then conditions and wages in the factories would improve.
But again, looked at in the whole working conditions in the Foxconn factories were safer than they are in the average American workplace.
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Reports say many of them were working in some of the factories housed in the illegally constructed building.
We used to use 30-50% of the population working in factories to make the physical goods we wanted.
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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.
During those years a raft of legislation governing everything from child labour, working conditions in factories, the treatment of the poor, to public health and sanitation was passed.
And we now have across the country people working in factories making advanced batteries that are going into American-made cars, because what we also did at the same time was we raised fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks for the first time in 30 years.
The incident, the worst ever that the industry has seen, occurred in the busy winter season when factories are working round the clock to meet springtime orders.
The company is working to restructure operations there and bring the number of factories in line with demand, but has been somewhat hamstrung by byzantine labor regulations.
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Rick Santorum has a lot going for him, most especially a deep identification with and caring for the working class, for the displaced and unempowered people who once worked in steel mills and factories and have seen it all go away.
Mr Antoniw highlighted the dangers for people working at power stations, steel works and factories, and the risk of exposure in some public sector buildings, including schools.
Several hours after the incident the factories workers decided to stop working in protest.
The law prohibits children under 14 from working in factories, slaughterhouses or other dangerous locations.
She was the first to gather evidence on housing and the health of women working in Dundee's jute factories.
Hopefully, it will get the automaker closer to paying back taxpayers and more Americans working in its factories.
Here's a look at the factories in the building and the global retailers they say they were working for.
After the anti-sweatshop campaigns of the late 1990s, all three joined the Fair Labour Association, which sends inspectors, unannounced, to check on working conditions in factories.
They exist in our laboratories and our universities, in our fields and our factories, in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.
The EU has said it is considering "appropriate action" to encourage an improvement in working conditions in Bangladesh factories.
And like him, many other farmworkers legalized after 1986 have left the fields, moving to jobs in packing houses, warehouses and factories, attending college and working as professionals.
The Fair Labor Association was established in 1998, after the Western world discovered that much of our apparel and footwear was being manufactured in appalling working conditions in Asian factories.
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