Coming to the London docks he was shocked at the misery and poverty of casual labour and organized a docker's union. |
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The slaves provided the cheap and reliable labour to produce the cheap raw materials. |
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Fourth, the working class and labour movement, repressed, shackled, lacking independence, was no alternative. |
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These developments have also resulted in a political and intellectual crisis within the labour movement. |
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The tile company had callously sacked 29 regular workers and replaced them with casual labour supplied by Skilled. |
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Though working with flax was considered mainly women's work, slaves were often kept as free labour to help process it for sale. |
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The company is planning to sell or lease the mine and operate it using casual labour and new technology. |
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The Chief Minister, who had recently visited labour camps in the United Arab Emirates, said that the working conditions there were miserable. |
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The wider body of Irish labour law may also be formally linked with the new work permits legislation. |
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These people, gangmasters, have been around for years, bringing casual labour into the fields and exploiting a lot of farm workers for some time. |
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These units also identify and assign new locations for future labour camps that comply to the regulations to be built. |
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Without compulsory education, governments are unable to enforce child labour laws. |
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This has dramatically impacted the composition of the labour force, creating new challenges for us all. |
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You buy your raw materials, put your labour into your product and put it for sale. |
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Because of the current shifts and perhaps unpredictable forces in today's labour market, these demands may seem unrealistic. |
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Today there is a growing acceptance of illegal casual labour and a strong demand for it. |
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The labour of moles has caused some messy practical problems for the grass cutters. |
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Using casual labour has become a key means by which many employers seek to evade established standards. |
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The pregnancy went smoothly and Mrs Filer gave birth after being in labour for five hours. |
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Some institutions contract the work out to casual labour with little continuity and stability for the student. |
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Both women spent four hours in labour and both gave birth to baby daughters. |
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Clearly the Fed feels that growth in the economy can continue for some time before the slack in terms of labour resources is absorbed. |
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It was 1875 when the child labour laws cracked down on this abusive practice. |
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The trade unions have made repeated warnings to Railtrack about the use of casual labour on the lines but to no avail. |
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The men go off and look for casual labour during the day while women and children spend the day looking for shade. |
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Next time, though, I'll be employing my teenage cousins to do the manual labour and keeping my hands out of the sink. |
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These subjects were agricultural workers with varying periods of manual labour in the field. |
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Measles in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature labour or a baby with low birth weight. |
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He has written for several years about the ways in which jobbers and middle-men ruthlessly exploit migrant labour in the informal sector. |
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Populations are aging and the need for an augmented labour force is growing. |
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Despite recent riots in the Kurdish areas and signs of labour unrest, Batebi is not very optimistic that change will arrive soon. |
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Low dose mobile epidurals are generally more attractive to women in labour than traditional epidural techniques. |
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There are no slatted sheds allowed in Scotland so wintering cattle can be pretty labour intensive. |
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Grandad Danny, 39, went into action after daughter-in-law Charlotte went into labour in the early hours of Monday morning at his home in Boreham. |
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Only the most naive ideology could give the same place to this forecast that it does to the political actualities of the German labour movement. |
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Electricity supplies were rationed because of frozen coal stocks, difficulties on the roads and labour unrest. |
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I heard the man shouting and when I found out that his partner was in labour I ran outside and radioed for an ambulance. |
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Their businesses are based on low levels of investment and are not especially labour intensive. |
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But the end of rationing and other wartime restrictions and a shortage in the labour market led to a wind of change in gender politics. |
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The amendments also introduced the option of paying fines from 100 to 1000 leva instead of reformatory labour or imprisonment. |
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The disenfranchised people were turned into a resource, worth only the market price of their labour power. |
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They'll stay away from multinationals that use child workers or break labour laws overseas. |
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Secondly, economic growth relies on the growth of labour forces, especially young labourers. |
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The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle. |
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In both these examples, world capital flowed to the countries that had young, educated labour forces. |
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India and China are introducing a large pool of skilled and unskilled labour to compete with the labour forces of industrialised countries. |
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How did English agriculture manage to raise labour productivity to such high levels? |
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Labor Council's walking labour history museum is back with more wild and woolly facts from the wonderful world of workplace relations. |
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To preserve the variation named varieties have to be grafted, a labour intensive business which explains the high price. |
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It is a labour intensive business, but Lisa says as they are getting more established and organized the workload seems to be lessening. |
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The answer came when one delegate rose to address the notion of political action by the labour movement. |
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There are business visitors, truck drivers and their khalasis, migrant labour and police personnel. |
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Nick's business is so labour intensive it will never make a great deal of money. |
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They are considering relocating to Shanghai because high labour costs in this labour intensive business have eaten into their profits in Taiwan. |
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With a relatively small take-up of electronic accounts in Ireland, the private client business is highly labour intensive. |
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Writers who refused to change, such as Babel and Pilnyak, were executed or died in labour camps. |
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Mr. Shi's time in the labour camp was prolonged many times, as they failed to force him into giving up his beliefs. |
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Forced labour and starvation rations ensure that prisoners are too weak to rebel. |
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But turning labour into a political force to be reckoned with in Alberta is a tall order, which McGowan clearly outlined in his paper. |
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In the meantime the labour camps were full everywhere and our boys had their share. |
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The result is that since the mid-1980s the organized labour movement was no longer a major social and political factor. |
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Within a year of his return he was sentenced to hard labour at Newcastle for receiving stolen property. |
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For the past 25 years he has been documenting the immigrant experience in Canada, working class culture and the labour movement. |
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By withdrawing their labour or even working to rule they may be able to deprive the public of a key service. |
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The campaign by Canadian citizens and government workers appears to be having an effect inside the labour camps as well. |
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The internees of correctional labour camps have been seen by the entire population when so employed. |
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They were used to direct labour and raw materials as a way of maintaining the production of critical commodities. |
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The Cook Islands currently has no labour laws defining workers' rights with legislation bogged down in continual redrafts. |
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From here we are treated to an account of Watson's rise through the political labour movement. |
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It was their just reward last week to see the fruits of their labour come to fruition and be recognised. |
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He looks to struggles independent of political parties, the official labour movement, or any other organised forces. |
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The mine is now redrafting its labour policy with the help of the union, he said. |
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It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others. |
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With rising costs of timber and skilled labour hard to find, woodcarvings have become expensive and the exclusive realm of the rich. |
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These objective changes in the world economy have undermined the post-war framework of labour protection and social measures. |
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But why are populations and labour forces making such large-scale movements between regions? |
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A woman in labour was air-lifted from Ruatahuna to Rotorua Hospital, while about 30 people are cut off from civilisation in Ruatoki after access roads were washed out. |
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They spent much of the 2002 season ranked among the best in the province, only to stumble in an abbreviated playoff format due to a labour dispute. |
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The labour law introduced last December ended collective bargaining as well as the rights to establish works councils and participate in management. |
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Steelworkers Canadian director Ken Neumann said the merger creates a new force in the Canadian labour movement, as well as in federal and provincial politics. |
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They will see that they have laboured for the wind, when, at death, they find the profit of their labour is all gone like the wind, they know not whither. |
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Men worked on road gangs, though before long labour shortages led Ottawa to encourage them to move eastwards to Central Canadian manufacturing plants. |
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It was a labour of love, and he liked to keep his mind busy. |
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During the revolution black slave labour was introduced into capitalist enterprises in British colonies, the slave trade was established, as was the belief in white supremacy. |
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Shipwrights now required a labour force of workmen with a different set of skills who could saw to length and fit a ship together according to plan. |
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Social and economic trends have major impacts on labour forces of any industry and consequently there have been shifts in the health labour force in the last four decades. |
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Lind pointed out that control of labour in Hawaii extended far beyond wages and working conditions to include the gamut of living conditions in the plantation work camps. |
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He should try to recognise the costs of implementing the minimum wage particularly on businesses in labour intensive industries such as the tourism industry. |
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First, these characters are not placid creatures risen by voodoo for slave labour but the dead, reanimated by a virus, whose single instinct is to eat human flesh. |
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She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth. |
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Opera is a hugely expensive business and very labour intensive. |
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The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources. |
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The person concerned has been sent to a labour camp for re-education. |
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Outside, the propaganda on the labour camps sounds very good. |
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She was rushed into hospital, where doctors tried to stop the labour to no avail and baby Adam was brought into the world over three months premature. |
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Without an understanding of the role of Stalinism and Social Democracy, the labour movement will not be able to turn once again to a socialist perspective. |
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Vassilev said that the Bourgas Airport employees would be re-employed by the concessionaire and a group labour contract would be negotiated and signed with a year. |
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I was in labour for twenty-two hours with Evan Michael's brother. |
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The shortage of labour also helped advance the transition from the Decorated style of building to the less elaborate Perpendicular style. |
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Some of the hymns protested against the exploitation of child labour and slavery. |
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While there were no major labour strikes during his term, MacDonald acted swiftly to end those that did erupt. |
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Labour has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movement. |
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New labour legislation introduced by the Conservative government in 1992 laid down that the POA could no longer be a trade union. |
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Being a labour of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. |
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The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. |
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The advent of the Second World War pushed many struggling enterprises into bankruptcy as labour and materials were diverted to the war effort. |
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Currently, Malta's major resources are limestone, a favourable geographic location and a productive labour force. |
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As Poland's demographic bulge slimmed, new entrants to the domestic labour market reduced and emigration slowed. |
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Such factors include capital accumulation, technological change and labour force growth. |
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The amount of unemployment in an economy is measured by the unemployment rate, the percentage of workers without jobs in the labour force. |
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People who are retired, pursuing education, or discouraged from seeking work by a lack of job prospects are excluded from the labour force. |
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Ricardo saw an inherent conflict between landowners on the one hand and labour and capital on the other. |
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In poverty stricken societies, authorities are often lax on compulsory school attendance because child labour is exploited. |
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One example of competition for skilled labour is active recruitment of health workers from developing countries by developed countries. |
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These communities developed as Sikhs migrated out of Punjab to fill in gaps in imperial labour markets. |
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A later UN report stated that four million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labour during the Japanese occupation. |
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Remaining detailed characteristics for NI including labour market and housing. |
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Its architecture is Anglian in nature, possibly due to forced Anglian labour being used to build it. |
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The style was affected by the labour shortages caused by the plague as architects designed less elaborately to cope. |
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They were the only glassworks capable of fulfilling such a large order and had to bring in labour from France to meet it in time. |
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Images of farming included both men and women to show that during harvest time all available labour was required. |
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From this premise, Locke developed a labour theory of property, namely that ownership of property is created by the application of labour. |
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Moreover, Locke anchors property in labour but in the end upholds the unlimited accumulation of wealth. |
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The concurrent labour and social movements and the issues they attempted to address describe the climate at the time. |
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Mill became a strong advocate of such social reforms as labour unions and farm cooperatives. |
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Mill regarded economic development as a function of land, labour and capital. |
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It is productive labour that is productive of wealth and capital accumulation. |
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It means that income invested as advances of wages to labour creates employment, and not income spent on consumer goods. |
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The state of labour in America troubled him, and he feared that capitalism and machinery in the workplace would increase unemployment levels. |
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Between 1936 and 1938, a series of labour disputes, strikes, and worker unrest spread throughout the French automobile industry. |
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The Liberian government outlawed forced labour and slavery and asked for American help in social reforms. |
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As the population grew, with labour costs remaining low, living standards began to rise steadily. |
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Aside from clashes over a range of social, welfare, labour and economic policies, the most contentious topic has been universal suffrage. |
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The concentration of labour into factories has increased urbanisation and the size of settlements, to serve and house the factory workers. |
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Cistercian labour transformed southern Scotland into one of northern Europe's main source of sheep wool. |
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Forced labour of the peasants by the zamindars became more prevalent as cash crops were cultivated to meet the Company revenue demands. |
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By 1630, Africans had replaced the Tupani as the largest contingent of labour on Brazilian sugar plantations. |
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South Asia Programme primarily focuses on bonded labour in India's brick kilns, and bonded labour practices in Nepal's agriculture. |
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Following enclosure, crop yields increased while at the same time labour productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labour. |
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The increased labour supply is considered one of the causes of the Industrial Revolution. |
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The loss of agricultural labour also hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce. |
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By the 1810s, the first labour organizations to bring together workers of divergent occupations were formed. |
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In the 1970s the federal government came under intense pressures to curtail labour cost and inflation. |
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It reports news and analysis about union activity or problems facing the labour movement. |
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According to the OECD Germany has one of the highest labour productivity levels in the world. |
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The processing of sea salt was developed as a highly important export product from the West Indies, with the labour done by African slaves. |
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Qatar commissioned international law firm DLA Piper to produce a report investigating the immigrant labour system. |
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In the UK the official unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of the labour force that is classed as unemployed. |
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By increasing the efficiency of the labour force it create better conditions for good governance, improving health and enhancing equality. |
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Steam engines have considerably less thermal efficiency than modern diesels, requiring constant maintenance and labour to keep them operational. |
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Diesel locomotives were more efficient and the demand for manual labour for service and repairs was less than steam. |
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In undeveloped countries on the other hand, families desire children for their labour and as caregivers for their parents in old age. |
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As manual labour they had status below the gauchos and the Argentine, Chilean and European landowners and administrators. |
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The active phase of labour lasts on average 8 hours for the nullipara and 6 hours for the multipara. |
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The essay did not appear, but the results of the labour gone through are contained in the appendices to his Lectures on Logic. |
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Later Marxian economics descending from classical economics also use Smith's labour theories, in part. |
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In it, Marx focused on the labour theory of value and what he considered to be the exploitation of labour by capital. |
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The labour theory of value held that the value of a thing was determined by the labour that went into its production. |
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Here Marx elaborated his labour theory of value, which had been influenced by Thomas Hodgskin. |
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Indeed, Marx quoted Hodgskin as recognising the alienation of labour that occurred under modern capitalist production. |
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Marx had a special concern with how people relate to their own labour power. |
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These policies typically regard investing, taxation, trading, quotas, customs and labour regulations. |
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The causes of child labour include poverty, the lack of access to education and weak government institutions. |
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Employment regulations are relatively flexible and the labour market is one of the freest in the world. |
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Most of the followers of the clan were tenants, who supplied labour to the clan heads and sometimes act as soldiers. |
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Convicts provided much of the labour in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal. |
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In practice, there was little division of labour between slave and free, and most workers were illiterate and without special skills. |
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The latter collected some 3,500 names of those in favour of creating a party of labour independent from the existing political organisations. |
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At a TUC meeting in September 1892, a call was issued for a meeting of advocates of an independent labour organisation. |
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The history of Red Clydeside is a significant part of the history of the labour movement in Britain as a whole, and in Scotland in particular. |
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Furthermore, it was the behaviour of those conducting the war, not the war itself that provoked opposition within the labour movement. |
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The New Left rejected involvement with the labour movement and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle. |
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Social democracy is connected with the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers. |
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To replace female and child labour the pit pony was more widely introduced. |
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Therefore, the analysis of the labour market must be done in conjunction with other statistics. |
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Fairtrade Standards for hired labour situations specify that employees receive minimum wages and collective bargaining. |
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The number of workers involved was so great that it placed a significant strain on England's national labour force. |
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The Common was an arts and crafts community focused around a chapel, with an emphasis on manual labour in opposition to modern commerce. |
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There all the learn'd shall at the labour stand, And Douglas lend his soft obstetrick hand. |
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Both sexes gather nesting material and build the nest, but the division of labour is not always exactly equal. |
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Sometimes bycatch are sorted and sold as food, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America where cost of labour is cheaper. |
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Cherbourg is historically, with the Arsenal and the port, the main focus of labour and trades unions of the department of Manche. |
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On 12 August the Germans stated that unless labour was forthcoming men would be conscripted. |
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The fifth category of labour were British conscientious objectors and Irish citizens. |
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Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labour until they died of exhaustion or disease. |
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Some of the most notorious slave labour camps included a network of subcamps. |
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The Assyrians deployed large labour forces to build new palaces, temples and defensive walls. |
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An economy based on manual labour was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery. |
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During the same period, workhouses employed people whose poverty left them no other alternative than to work under forced labour conditions. |
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Slave labour was integral to early settlement of the colonies, which needed more people for labour and other work. |
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As the European population was severely reduced, land became more plentiful for the survivors, and labour consequently more expensive. |
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The size, scope, and scale of the GULAG slave labour camps remains a subject of much research and debate. |
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It is also easier to gain access to local labour resources and heavy equipment such as floating cranes and barges. |
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Between 2006 and 2007, Adidas rejected many of its suppliers that supported unions for subcontractors with less reputable labour rights records. |
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By subcontracting work to different suppliers, it is more difficult for Adidas to ensure company labour standards are enforced. |
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Feudal lordship was combined with technical modernization, and the distinction between unfree labour and paid work was often vague. |
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They also faced high government deficits and growing unrest led by militant labour unions. |
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Labour movements are particularly strong in Austria and have large influence on labour politics. |
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This resulted in a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the countries' citizens. |
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There was also an unskilled labour shortage, which the VOC later resolved by importing slaves from Angola, Madagascar, and the East Indies. |
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African slavery had existed long before Europeans discovered it as an exploitable means of creating an inexpensive labour force for the colonies. |
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The labour shortage that resulted inspired European colonizers to develop a new source of labour, using a system of indentured servitude. |
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Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour to refer to such situations. |
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Socialists draw parallels between the trade of labour as a commodity and slavery. |
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He was spared by Magellan and after five months of hard labour in chains was made captain of the galleon. |
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This trade accelerated as superior ships led to more trade and greater demand for labour on plantations in the region. |
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Although Portugal officially abolished slavery in 1876, the practice of forced paid labour continued. |
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A new constitution was adopted in 1940, which engineered radical progressive ideas, including the right to labour and health care. |
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Chronic problems include a shortage of skilled labour and a deficient infrastructure. |
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There are some 70 labour unions in the country, and to apply to join one, people must register with the Ministry of Manpower. |
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In addition, the First and Second Estates relied on the labour of the Third, which made the latter's unequal status all the more glaring. |
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The bonus has been announced under an agreement reached between CDA administration and labour union. |
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Five Albertans with extensive labour relations experience have been appointed to the Alberta Labour Relations Board. |
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A MIDWIFE accused a mum-to-be of lying about her labour pains and of being a nuisance, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday. |
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Pinto was shipwrecked, apprehended by the Chinese and sentenced to one year hard labour on the Great Wall of China. |
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However, though larger ships transported the growing volume of goods, labour productivity did not go up sufficiently to realise these. |
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Male convicts served their sentences as assigned labour to free settlers or in gangs assigned to public works. |
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British owners of sugarcane plantations therefore needed new workers, and they found cheap labour in China, Portugal and India. |
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Speaking from the hospital ward, Abe revealed she crashed on purpose and that her due date was Wednesday but she had no labour pains. |
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I suffered for months and months with excruciating pain in my stomach, which I can only describe as like labour pains. |
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Beginning in the 1840s, the British utilized Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations. |
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As with British spelling, the u is retained in words such as colour, honour, labour and favour. |
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So the first colonists were actually tenants and much of the profits of their labour returned to Courten and his company. |
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Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate were aggravated by its refusal to legalize labour unions or introduce a minimum wage. |
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Canadian labour law is that body of law which regulates the rights, restrictions obligations of trade unions, workers and employers in Canada. |
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Most labour regulation in Canada is conducted at the provincial level by government agencies and boards. |
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However, certain industries under federal regulation are subject solely to federal labour legislation and standards. |
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The 1990s saw a rise in student and labour protests pressuring the king to introduce reforms. |
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After discussing the labour law, the syndicate representatives also discussed the health insurance law. |
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This symposium contains a collection of papers dealing with labour market institutions and policies in developed and emerging countries. |
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I need to know when I will be contractually entitled for annual leave as per labour law. |
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As a consequence of this, housewife is the biggest sub-group in the economically inactive total labour force in Turkey. |
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Debate arose concerning the morality of the system, as workers complained about unfair working conditions prior to the passage of labour laws. |
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Child labour was also a major part of the system, and was vehemently argued by those who deemed it immoral. |
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Marx knew that wage labour existed on a modest scale for centuries before capitalist industry. |
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After having stagnated during 2009-11, the labour force is now experiencing a new burst of growth. |
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Wage labour refers to the sale of labour under a formal or informal employment contract to an employer. |
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These transactions usually occur in a labour market where wages are market determined. |
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Critics of the capitalist mode of production see wage labour as a major, if not defining, aspect of hierarchical industrial systems. |
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The Mobile Care Unit will visit work sites and labour camps and ensure that the workers get their rights. |
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Economic history shows a great variety of ways in which labour is traded and exchanged. |
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Similarities between wage labour and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome. |
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As farming developed, grain agriculture became more sophisticated and prompted a division of labour to store food between growing seasons. |
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He frequented areas popular among members of the English labour and Chartist movements, whom he met. |
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Child labour was used in the mills, and the factory system led to organised labour. |
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As per the new guidelines issued by the NHRC in 2013, double-decker beds in makeshift labour camps on construction sites have been banned. |
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The later mills were on the fringe of the spinning area in Wigan and Stockport, Availability of labour was cited as a reason. |
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In Scotland, four cotton mills were built in Rothsay on the Isle of Bute using labour that had experience of the linen industry. |
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Over time, rings became suitable for finer counts and because of cheaper labour costs they replaced mules. |
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In Lancashire and Piedmont, South Carolina child labour is well documented. |
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A committee is being set up to examine current and future needs of labour camps in Qatar. |
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As spinners were 'assisted' by several 'piecers' there was a pool of trained labour to replace any spinner the owner cared to dismiss. |
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The well paid mule spinners were the 'barefoot aristocrats' of labour and became organised in the 19th century. |
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The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state. |
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Shetty, a social worker in the labour camp area of Dharavi, supported the team in organising the awareness camp. |
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The footage that turned viral on social media was of a big fire that broke out late on Monday in a labour camp. |
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As a result of union action, child labour laws were passed to prevent boys under 14 years old working underground. |
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Ten Bangladeshis were also killed in a blaze on May 27, 2012 in a makeshift labour camp in East Riffa. |
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The trustees could call on a portion of the statute duty from the parishes, either as labour or by a cash payment. |
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The trust applied the income to pay for labour and materials to maintain the road. |
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A labour camp in Dubai has grown so big that it now needs its own police station. |
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With the rise of household income, availability of schools and passage of child labour laws, the incidence rates of child labour fell. |
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In developing countries, with high poverty and poor schooling opportunities, child labour is still prevalent. |
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Child labour played an important role in the Industrial Revolution from its outset, often brought about by economic hardship. |
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The regulation of child labour began from the earliest days of the Industrial revolution. |
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He lauded BCCI's contribution to the development and regulation of the labor market and visions at the formulation of the labour market's laws. |
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Factories and mines were not the only places where child labour was prevalent in the early 20th century. |
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Governments and reformers argued that labour in factories must be regulated and the state had an obligation to provide welfare for poor. |
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Some 60 percent of the child labour was involved in agricultural activities such as farming, dairy, fisheries and forestry. |
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Asia, with its larger population, has the largest number of children employed as child labour at about 114 million. |
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Maplecroft Child Labour Index 2012 survey reports 76 countries pose extreme child labour complicity risks for companies operating worldwide. |
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Other scholars such as Harsch on African child labour, and Edmonds and Pavcnik on global child labour have reached the same conclusion. |
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They suggest that child labour is a serious problem in all five, but it is not a new problem. |
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Macroeconomic causes encouraged widespread child labour across the world, over most of human history. |
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They suggest that the causes for child labour include both the demand and the supply side. |
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Children in Africa today are often forced into exploitative labour due to family debt and other financial factors, leading to ongoing poverty. |
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Other types of domestic child labour include working in commercial plantations, begging, and other sales such as boot shining. |
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With children playing an important role in the African economy, child labour still plays an important role for many in the 20th century. |
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Free or slave labour was a common occurrence for many youths and was a part of their everyday lives as they grew into adulthood. |
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The first legal steps taken to end the occurrence of child labour was enacted more than fifty years ago. |
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This led to a large number of children being forced into labour due to the increasing need of cheap labour to produce large numbers of goods. |
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Children were wanted and desired in Ireland for the use of their labour on the family farm. |
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Child labour existed in the Netherlands up to and through the Industrial Revolution. |
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Laws governing child labour in factories were first passed in 1874, but child labour on farms continued to be the norm up until the 20th century. |
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In 2008, Bloomberg claimed child labour in copper and cobalt mines that supplied Chinese companies in Congo. |
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The report found Gap had rigorous social audit systems since 2004 to eliminate child labour in its supply chain. |
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These children, HRW claimed, were bonded child labour in India, easy to find in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. |
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In 2008, the BBC reported that the company Primark was using child labour in the manufacture of clothing. |
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The term child labour can be misleading when it confuses harmful work with employment that may be beneficial to children. |
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Luddism was in fact a prototypical, insurrectionary labour movement involving a loose coalition of dissenters. |
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The supply of labour from workhouse to factory, which remained popular until the 1830s, was sometimes viewed as a form of transportation. |
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For the ensuing decade, men were instead sentenced to hard labour and women were imprisoned. |
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Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. |
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In Portugal, a general strike has been called by the federation of public labour unions to avert austerity measures. |
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Orthodox labour unions typically act as a representative from the workers to employers. |
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The mines reverted to care and maintenance for a while due to labour shortages in First World War. |
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This was both an aesthetic attack on, and a social critique of the division of labour in particular, and industrial capitalism in general. |
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Socialist theory and organisational contact with the First International, which linked labour movements in various countries, paved the way. |
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Carlisle was subject to the decline in the textile industry experienced throughout Britain as new machinery made labour unnecessary. |
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Some of these were, like Germans, used as forced labour in France after the cessation of hostilities. |
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