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If we look at construction and manufacturing, there's major inefficiencies, energy consumption and excessive labor techniques.

Now it took about two weeks of processing on Intel's highest-end servers to make this happen, and another six months of human and computing labor to make sense of all of that data.

And we got that gift back in the '70s and '80s when women entered the labor force.

Now hours per person are shrinking, first because of the retirement of the baby boomers, and second because there's been a very significant dropping out of the labor force of prime age adult males who are in the bottom half of the educational distribution.

The 1980s brought us Bill Gates, DOS, ATM machines to replace bank tellers, bar code scanning to cut down on labor in the retail sector.

Family business equals child labor.

There are three principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Reuther's problem in that anecdote is that it is tough to offer your labor to an economy that's full of machines, and we see this very clearly in the statistics.

If we look at the returns to labor, in other words total wages paid out in the economy, we see them at an all-time low and heading very quickly in the opposite direction.

But over the longer term, if we are moving into an economy that's heavy on technology and light on labor, and we are, then we have to consider some more radical interventions, for example, something like a guaranteed minimum income.

Our democracies are weakened in the global economy with players that can evade laws, evade taxes, evade environmental or labor standards.

With this information, we can calculate fuel costs, labor costs, etc.

First, recent investigations reveal the use of forced labor, or slave labor, in high seas fishing.

If we assume fair wages, which means not slave labor, and we remove the subsidies from our calculation, the map turns into this.

After all, in a totally free labor market, we could find jobs for pretty much everyone.

They told me, for example, that if I proved myself worthy of their help, then they could change my life back to how it had been, and a series of increasingly bizarre tasks was set, a kind of labor of Hercules.

I'd written my first coauthored labor law book on a typewriter in 1979 purely from memory.

A quote by Bertrand Russell, "All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction.

So how they come to collective decisions, and how they allocate their tasks and divide their labor, how they communicate where the flowers are, all of their collective social behaviors are mindblowing.

The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a great sense of pride in many families living in this tower.

He comes to the market when prices are lowest, with the meager fruits of his hard labor, just after the harvest, because he has no choice.

We found there was a risk of child labor in the supply chain, and people in the business were shocked.

So a code of conduct was developed, and now we have 80 auditors out in the world every day making sure all our factories secure good working conditions and protect human rights and make sure there is no child labor.

But it's not just as simple as making sure there's no child labor.

Stalin's enforced famines of the 1930s, the Holodomor, killed millions of Ukrainians, and they faced the Nazis in the '40s, who came through slashing, burning, raping, and in fact many of these women were shipped to Germany as forced labor.

I find the stigma especially ironic, because I strongly believe that sanitation workers are the most important labor force on the streets of the city, for three reasons.

But in our effort to reconfigure how we as a species exist on this planet, we must include and take account of all the costs, including the very real human cost of the labor.

Social includes human capital, things like employee engagement and innovation capacity, as well as supply chain management and labor rights and human rights.

Agricultural labor productivity increased seven times, 1950 to 2000, whereas the rest of the economy increased about 2.5 times.

We recognized kids had rights, we banned child labor, we focused on education instead, and school became a child's new work.

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