Factories
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Prodded by groups like the Workers Rights Consortium and the Ethical Trading Initiative, some corporations promise to pay living wages, open their
factories
to monitors, and even provide employees a voice in the workplace.
Though young people are still flocking to the cities from the countryside, they end up not in
factories
but mostly in informal, low-productivity services.
They inherited the skills of fund-raising and recruitment of activists, a presence in factories, trade unions, and bureaucracies, as well as other nuts and bolts of party organization.
Poland’s transformation is visible not only in the form of new motorways, local roads, airports, hospitals and stadiums, but also in the appearance of vast numbers of new and refurbished housing units, supermarkets, and modern
factories.
A reviving Germany built modern factories, whereas the occupiers were saddled with old ones.
Trees consume large amounts of carbon dioxide as they grow, making them vital tools for absorbing the greenhouse-gas emissions – from cars, factories, power stations, and livestock – that result in climate change.
But CLT is still in its infancy, with only a handful of
factories
in operation.
New plantations could regenerate rural areas, as new
factories
created opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.
If chemistry admitted even a small element of chance, there could be no chemical laboratories, no chemical
factories.
We start with 100 farmers producing 100 units of food: technological progress enables 50 to produce the same amount, and the other 50 to move to
factories
that produce washing machines or cars or whatever.
Second, while the US economy remains the largest in the world by most measures, comprising one-quarter of global GDP, this share is ten percentage points lower than in the 1960s, when US
factories
produced the most steel, autos, and aircraft in the world.
These include burning oil wells, along with chemical or radioactive spills from bombed
factories
or storage facilities, bacterial contamination of water when sewage treatment systems are destroyed, and flooded or dessicated lands following the destruction of dams and irrigation systems;Effects of physical or chemical impact on land cover.
And demonstrators have gone to great – sometimes destructive – lengths to be heard, blocking roads, occupying
factories
and government buildings, and sabotaging water and electricity infrastructure.
As for corporate bankruptcy, it is recognized that a poor legal system is one that keeps otherwise viable
factories
shuttered while assets are frittered away in expensive legal wrangling, leaving everyone – managers, workers, and shareholders – worse off.
First in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, and then in Western Europe and North America, men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories’ growing demand for labor.
Most concern the progress of globalization: the alleged movement of industrial jobs from Europe and the U.S. to Latin America and Asia; the pace of migration; the influence of investors from abroad and the closing of
factories.
But most migrant workers now find jobs in services rather than in
factories.
Within a year, Polish workers were striking for the right to establish independent trade unions, staging two weeks of sit-ins at state-owned
factories
to achieve their goal.
In addition, India has built factories, hospitals, and parliaments in various countries, and sent doctors, teachers, and IT professionals to treat and train the nationals of recipient countries.
China and India represent more than mushrooming
factories
and low-cost semi-skilled labor.
For example, The Financial Times reported on June 23 that, “Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment
factories
supplying western buyers such as Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Walmart, and Hampamp;M gradually reopened under heavy police protection…after days of violent protests by tens of thousands of laborers demanding higher wages.”
The
factories
have reopened – for now.
For instance, if I save $100, but at the same time I invest $100 in my factories’ fixed assets, I am “balanced domestically” and not running an export surplus with anyone.
A recent Bloomberg Businessweek story describes how temporary workers at auto-parts
factories
in Alabama are paid just $7.25 per hour, and must work in hazardous conditions with no safety training.
Governments will have to intervene to set these standards, as they did during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to improve abysmal conditions in
factories.
Given that low-income economies typically have little fixed capital (computers, factories, infrastructure) and human capital (education and training) per worker, they tend to have higher potential returns to capital investment.
Second, manufacturing jobs did not require much skill: farmers could be turned into production workers in
factories
with little investment in additional training.
The Death of the PartyMOSCOW – Nearly 26 years ago, President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree that effectively banned Communist Party organs from operating in factories, universities, and all other workplaces across the Russian Federation.
LONDON – At the start of the Industrial Revolution, textile workers in the Midlands and the North of England, mainly weavers, staged a spontaneous revolt, smashing machinery and burning
factories.
But it is becoming increasingly difficult for
factories
in the region to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.
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