It was a tax reform which finally brought tea within the grasp of the ordinary worker, when in 1784 William Pitt the Younger slashed the tax on it from 120% to 12.5% – and whacked up the window tax instead – in an attempt to soothe the national epidemic of tea smuggling.
With no legal status, and a only a tiny grasp of English, many of the workers never report the harassment.
He told The Economist that the trade unions and many of his party comrades had become "one-dimensional", representing only the interests of the 30m or so workers in India's "organised" sector.Mr Bhattarcharjee concedes that some of his colleagues in Delhi do not seem to grasp that economic reform could benefit a much bigger number of workers than those who belong to unions.
Quality care is our primary concern; a great care worker with low literacy levels supersedes a poor care worker with an excellent grasp of the English language.
Mr. Fan, a slender 33-year-old who cheerfully attributes his fluent English to "fighting with my Chinese-American girlfriend," showed a sociologist's grasp of the broad shifts that have afflicted workers like this couple.
Others say Dr. Petillo -- a former Roman Catholic priest who was the chancellor of Seton Hall University from 1983 to 1990 -- is a tireless worker with an encyclopedic grasp of the issues facing the university.
Tapia, unlike some American workers, already had a solid grasp of what a union is.
It shows the government's lack of grasp of the real situation," says Juan Vargas, a development worker in Uncia, a nearby town.The government has promised other help.
One reason is a poor grasp of English, a language, one male Thai sex worker complained, that "we learned only from our clients".
Furthermore, workers needed to develop a conceptual grasp of the production process to identify problems as they appeared on the line, and the analytical skills to identify the root causes of the problems.
