Sentences with phrase «agricultural labor force»

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«Women's labor provided the driving force behind the expansion of agricultural economies in the past,» Macintosh says.

Statistics show that 25.5 percent of SEH doctoral degree holders in the labor force held a doctorate in the biological, agricultural or environmental life sciences; 18.5 percent held doctorates in engineering; 17.1 percent in physical sciences; 14.5 percent in psychology; 12.3 percent in social sciences; 4.6 percent in health; 4.5 percent in mathematics and statistics and 3 percent in computer and information sciences.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

The plans for technological innovation are small but important pieces of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Growth Strategy, which also includes recommendations to streamline the agricultural sector, promote the participation of women in the labor force, and enhance the competitiveness of Japan's manufacturers.

But due to the fact that the entire planting operation was mismanaged, handled more in the style of forced prison labor and oversight than a well thought out agricultural plan, the entire project has languished, with seeds going unharvested, rotting on the ground.

How animals are treated, the working conditions of many agricultural workers, forced labor and paltry wages are all topics not often covered by mainstream media.

Secondly, unlike the traditional role specialization of domestic and agricultural work between the two sexes in rural China as the popular saying «nan geng nv zhi» (men till the land and women weave cloth), it is quite common that both men and women work outside home in urban China, and the labor force participation rates for fathers and mothers with children aged 0 — 6 in 2004 were 90.6 and 71.3 % respectively (Du and Dong 2008).