Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the villagers I spoke with had been offered any guidance by a family-planning or social worker. No one had explained to them, for instance, that sterilization does not cause impotence. Officially, there was no coercion, but the elaborate system of "disincentives" amounted to the same thing. Government employees had to produce two or more candidates for sterilization. For such civil servants, or for anybody who was being pressured into submitting to sterilization himself, it was usually possible to hire a stand-in for about 200 rupees ($22). For those not in government service, all sorts of privileges...
...annual rate of $12.9 billion, the largest increase for any one month. One reason: working hours lengthened as factories that had been shut down in January by the cold and fuel shortages resumed full operation. Earnings rose even faster than prices in February, so the non-farm worker's "real" income-adjusted for inflation and higher taxes-climbed one-half...
...economy, and while the rise in the credit would be small, it has become a symbolic issue in the eyes of many executives. But the House, in a misguided effort to spur employment, turned it down in favor of a "jobs tax credit": 40% of a newly hired worker's wages, up to a maximum of $1,680. The House put a ceiling of $40,000 on the credit any one employer could take, thus effectively limiting the benefits to small businesses, which do not do the most hiring. Democrat Lloyd Bentsen of Texas came up with a compromise...
...private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub) still get less than $2.73 for a full day of picking coffee berries, no more than before prices rose-though some have made enough profit to retire for the rest of their lives...
...month-long wildcat walkout by 3,000 precision toolmakers at British Leyland, England's largest automaker and the only major one still under British control, shut down 15 factories, stopped production of all but six of the company's 18 car models, idled 44,000 assembly-line workers and threatened the troubled giant with near-total paralysis. Bowing to pressures from the government and their own union officials, the toolmakers voted last week to go back to their lathes. It was a significant reprieve for Britain's Labor government, which sorely needs worker support for Phase...