This would have been the case had country B required four labour hours (instead of six) to produce a unit of cloth.
Once the overhead rate has been determined, a provision for overhead cost can be entered on each job order cost sheet on the basis of the number of direct labour hours or machine hours used on that job.
Because output within a cost centre is not homogeneous, production volume must be measured by something other than the number of units of product; common measures include the number of machine hours and direct labour hours.
Murdoch respects his intellect and believes that his son James and Rebekah Brooks were gratuitously rude to Brown when the Sun ditched Labour hours after his speech to the party conference in 2009.
The harm to individual children from being subjected to child labour will depend on a number of factors, including both the total number of labour hours and the type of work involved.
One of the strengths of the current study is that it comprises all relevant variables impacting the cost of managing acute HAE-C1-INH attacks, including the indirect costs related to patients' and caretakers' loss of labour hours.
The lost maternal labour hours are probably mainly in domestic chores, but the household does not respond by reducing paternal income-generating work time and the consumption it finances: rather, the children must make up for the mother's lost hours.
Earlier that century, the Welsh reformer Robert Owen had coined the slogan "Eight hours' labour, eight hours' recreation, eight hours' rest".
If labour could be measured adequately in simple homogeneous units of time, such as labour-hours, the problems of economics would be considerably simplified.
Some additional limitations of the study were the fact that the labour-hours required for each incident were recorded through personal interviews with employees of the two main health centres, mainly with physicians.
Think of the value that access to the past century of ecological and evolutionary literature would have to researchers working today, the many thousands of labour-hours expended collecting biological knowledge across many scales of time and space.
