| The announcement rocked a town that already has suffered a steady loss of manufacturing jobs to low-wage nations such as China and Mexico. |
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| And after pinning all its economic hopes on exporting to the US market, it finds itself outmaneuvered in low-wage manufacturing. |
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| They don't show the struggles his parents faced supporting a cobbled-together family of nine on low-wage jobs. |
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| Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery. |
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| But this is a form of social injustice, for innumerate and illiterate workers are locked into a low-wage future. |
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| Scotland's volume manufacturing plants will increasingly find themselves competing for jobs with low-wage economies in Asia and eastern Europe. |
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| Human rights groups criticize maquilas for not providing better security for their low-wage, largely female work force. |
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| They hold low-wage jobs as restaurant waiters, street cleaners, construction workers, and dishwashers. |
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| He oversaw the transformation of a high-wage manufacturing economy into a low-wage service economy. |
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| In some ways, this recession has not been as hard on low-wage workers as earlier recessions. |
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| Ehrenreich's book investigates the plight of some of the low-wage workers studied by the EPI report. |
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| Half of the product lines were shipped out, mostly to low-wage countries, including Mexico. |
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| Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor. |
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| This welfare spending discourages work, increases taxes, and operates as a hidden and inefficient subsidy to low-wage businesses. |
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| For them, it was assimilate or starve, with the constant reality of low-wage labor being undercut by new arrivals. |
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| Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt? |
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| These new anthems of despair paint their subjects as forced off welfare by uncompassionate conservatives and trapped in low-wage jobs that lead nowhere. |
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| A sense of crisis pervades her account of life in the low-wage workforce. |
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| The authoritarian government was demanding stricter laws for low-wage peasants. |
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| With a strategy of low-wage mass production overseas and flexible high-tech manufacturing at home, they should remain globally competitive. |
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