An estimated four million citizens — more than one in five Dutch people — now have ancestry outside the twelve provinces that constitute the Netherlands*, whether in the former Dutch colonies of Indonesia, Suriname, and a number of Caribbean nations, or in countries such as Turkey and Morocco, or in the Balkans, which have long been a source of guest workers.
The county and its main city, Williamsport, are working diligently to position themselves not just as a host to the arriving companies, but also as a source of local workers for the industry and a long-term beneficiary of its local and national expansion.
Futaba was once a backwater reeling from coal mining's postwar decline, and a source of migrant workers for Tokyo, so Futaba's leaders responded enthusiastically to inquiries from Tokyo Electric in 1960 over a possible nuclear plant in the area.
And would it end the brothels or simply usher in a different source of workers?
Another avenue of research is to consider the role of phenotypic plasticity as a source of differentiation among workers.
But a usually reliable source of workers, the local government-financed job center, could offer little help, because the federal money that local officials had designated to help train drivers was already exhausted.
As organized labor's ranks continue to decline, unions are looking increasingly to low-wage service workers as a source of growth, convinced that these workers — car washers, janitors, nursing home aides, security guards and pharmacy clerks — will be eager to join.
This was sometimes a source of conflict between health workers and other committee members, with the latter feeling that their roles were being usurped when health workers, for example, completed cashbooks or vouchers.
It's a source of pride for generations of workers.
Therefore, they were trained in challenging the workers to reflect on the feasibility of solutions and how to present themselves as a source of support for the worker: not by taking over responsibilities but by strengthening the workers' autonomy.
Noting that by 2006, some 6,000 workers will build a liquefied natural gas plant across La Perouse Strait -- known in Japan as the Soya Strait -- he predicted that Wakkanai would develop as a source of fresh food for workers.
