Novelist Tough Acts, by Steven Berkoff Robson Bookss) is the best film book of the year, an insider's sharp-eyed but affectionate view of the dream factory and its billion-dollar workforce.
He protests that he saved and created thousands of jobs, too; and that those 2,000 women were only a fraction of Dollar General's workforce of 70,000.
But how should they spend their new workforce dollars?
The rise of artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning have already changed the structure — and bottom line — of manufacturing so if we want to bring back good manufacturing jobs perhaps the administration should be finding innovative ways to train workers, especially women and low-wage workers, for 21st century technology jobs using workforce development dollars.
That advantage, you may recall, earns them 79 cents for every dollar a man earns in the workforce for equal duties, experience, and education.
When a twenty-two-billion-dollar company can fit its entire workforce into a Greyhound bus, the concept of surplus labor would seem to have run its course.
Its vanguard: what is estimated to be a multibillion-dollar business teaching the Indian corporate workforce the fundamentals of social etiquette, whether it is chewing with their mouths closed or dealing with the opposite sex.
The multibillion-dollar retailer relies on a low-wage workforce to peddle cheap goods to many people who are just getting by.
Not only is it the largest employer in the city, but OHSU is an important and effective vehicle to attract both federal funding, totaling more than 168 million dollars for 2005, and a highly skilled workforce to the area.
Merrill Lynch said yesterday it was cutting 4,000 jobs – one in 10 of its workforce - after writing off billions of dollars in liabilities related to the sub-prime mortgage market.
The prospect of peace could open up the resources-rich south to foreign investment, which is still overshadowed by the billions of dollars sent home each year from the huge expatriate workforce.
