As the flow of foreign capital steadily increased after the first Sino-Japanese War (1894 95), light industries were established within the foreign concessions, which took advantage of Shanghai's ample and cheap labour supply, local raw materials, and inexpensive power.
Other countries have ample low-cost labour ready to move into manufacturing as Chinese real wages rise, so it may be through higher borrowing costs, rather than a dearth of cheap toys or T-shirts, where the west will feel the impact of China's changing economy most keenly.
In the special clinic, effective salary rates are much higher, whereas economic theory would predict that a slightly higher salary than the public sector rate would attract ample supply of labour.
In times of ample national supply of labour, trade unions are likely to oppose recruitment of immigrant workers; while in times of labour shortages, unions will probably be more willing to cooperate.
Since 1997 Labour has had ample time to match rhetoric with substance.
Ample opportunities will arise for the Labour party to remind voters who are tempted to stay at home that a Miliband government would be markedly different from the David Cameron offering.
They are drawing on the ample supply of land and cheap labour.
The legal limbo creates ample scope for abuse: limited regard for labour laws, for example, encourages exploitation of workers.
Due to differential soil management over long periods of time, and to ample diversity in resource endowments (land, livestock, labour) and access to cash, the five farm types exhibited different soil carbon and nutrient stocks (e.g. Type 2 farms had average C, N, P and K stocks that were 2 3 times larger than for Types 4 or 5).
