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A Bible—to be sure, a long book—required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

Conflicts between labor and management.

For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

Changing the current energy system requires the systematic training of professionals and skilled labor.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

In sum:generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market,but they also tend to diminish their careers.

Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入) confidence about having children.

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (風(fēng)氣)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed

The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated.

To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor

They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

They are no match for illegal immigrants in labor skills

They had some labor problems, so your order will be shipped late.

A labor dispute at a bus company

Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

The division of labor between men and women.

However, it is farmers that are pushing for the advancements due to ever-increasing labor vacancies, making it difficult to maintain large-scale operations.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, "Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest."

The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.

In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.

We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

Britain's Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

For H&M to offer a $5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300 -plus stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.

In the absence of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could yield strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure.

It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building in

One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.

Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.

The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens'greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

The teachers'unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment -- including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line -- Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

Your home colleagues - your family - have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they're teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.