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...globalization that we intuitively know - call centers in India, toy factories in China - is just one piece of an increasingly competitive landscape. As manual work becomes more automated and trade barriers fall, companies chase knowledge workers and efficiency just as much as they do cheap labor and access to new markets. In this new calculus, it is often surprising who comes out ahead. According to the Business Competitive Index, the Global Competitive Index's sibling measure developed by Harvard economist Michael Porter, the countries with the lowest wages relative to competitiveness - that is, the best values as investment locations...
...Tuhendhat's firm suggested harnessing the nation's long tradition of metal working and pushing into the machining and automotive parts sectors in order to take advantage of the growing auto industry in neighboring Slovakia and Romania - two countries that have become a hot spot because of their inexpensive labor and access to the markets of the European Union...
Everything that happens in the tea industry, of course, depends on its workers. The Plantation Labor Act of 1951 guarantees not just a minimum wage for workers in tea, coffee and rubber but also housing, education, medical care and drinking water. Those benefits add about 11% to production costs and are the main reason Indian tea costs about $1.62 a kg to produce, compared with $1.23 in Sri Lanka, $1.16 in Kenya and 84˘ in Malawi. Strong unions in India's tea-growing regions have fought to preserve those benefits. Tea-estate workers are paid on average...
...actually playing a service role when they sell textbooks to students, not “gouging” them as some may believe.“The Coop’s least profitable operation is textbooks,” Shinagel said. “It’s very labor-intensive to shelve and reshelve. If anything, the Coop is lucky to break even.” Shinagel added that the Coop is working to alleviate rising textbook costs.“One of the great initiatives is to have more buybacks of textbooks,” he said...
...variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of CaliforniaÂÂ-Berkeley, and the University of MassachusettsÂ-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily Californian, several students at UCÂ-Berkeley have been living...