Talent, in contrast to the more generic labor, is highly skilled and portable.
Private enterprise is growing; there is no longer a war to unify the people, and the idea of volunteer labor is highly unpopular.
The Wintek injuries underscore the challenges Apple faces in trying to source goods from China, which dominates electronics manufacturing with low-cost labor and highly efficient factories that often operate around the clock.
While small by Silicon Valley standards, you have to keep in mind the cost of labor for highly trained knowledge workers (developers, IT, network), which is roughly six to seven times less than the Valley.
Talent, in contrast to labor, is highly skilled, differentiated, and portable.
At Brook Farm, women had the opportunity to expand beyond their typical sphere of tasks and their labor was highly valued.
Of course, until such time as we have fully autonomous android robots than can do everything humans can do, technology and capital are partly a substitute to labor, partly highly complementary, a force multiplier for labor.
And for the majority of districts struggling to meet the new school food standards with inadequate funding and labor, the highly processed, lower priced, heat-and-eat entree will continue to remain an alluring option.
Indeed, the production of an RH panel, let alone two, is a labor intensive, highly technical and therefore expensive task.
The proximate and ultimate mechanisms leading to the evolution of eusocial behavior, in which there is a reproductive division of labor between highly fecund females (queens) and largely sterile females (workers), has long fascinated biologists.
