Sentence examples for worldwide labour from inspiring English sources

Worldwide labour productivity has risen by one-third, as management has wielded the knife.

The researchers estimated the total worldwide labour costs for the iPad at $33, of which China's share was just $8.

In August it did quash a ban imposed by the commission on Apple's older iPads and iPhones that were found to infringe Samsung's patents.Alcatel-Lucent said it would cut 10,000 jobs, or around 15% of its worldwide labour force.

Although rich-country labour forces are now at their peak (in Europe they will now decline for the foreseeable future) the worldwide labour force continues to grow rapidly; today's stock of 200m migrants may easily become 300m in a few decades.

And after worldwide labour deregulation during the past decades' neoliberal reforms, they are now free to hire workers on a casual or on-call basis to reduce labour costs.

Although governments, the private sector, NGOs and academia have begun to focus on the economic and environmental impacts of global climate change, there has been little attention to what effects global heating will have on the health and productivity of the worldwide labour force (2).

However, it must be noted that worldwide obstructed labour is the cause for maternal mortality in 8% of cases [ 34].

Worldwide, obstructed/prolonged labour is the most frequent obstetric complication leading to perinatal mortality [ 12].

While the rate of children at work is on the decline worldwide, child labour remains a substantial global challenge.

But the International Labour Organization (ILO) - whose figure of 20.9 million people worldwide in forced labour does not include bonded labour - believes slavery can be completely eradicated.

Dan Viederman is chief executive officer of Verité, which campaigns for fair labour worldwide This article first appeared on the 30 May 2013.