The Cessna factory at Independence, Kansas, which builds the Cessna piston-engined aircraft and the Cessna Mustang, was not forecast to see any lay-offs, but one third of the workforce at the former Columbia Aircraft facility in Bend was laid off.

The growth in the 1980s was based on debt, and when the defaults began rolling in, GDP declined by 13 % and unemployment increased from a virtual full employment to one fifth of the workforce.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

Much of the agricultural workforce was uprooted from the countryside and moved into large urban centres of production, as the steam-based production factories could undercut the traditional cottage industries, because of economies of scale and the increased output per worker made possible by the new technologies.

Since a third of the Malay workforce worked in the rubber industry it was important to develop alternative sources of employment.

Little was done to improve the living standards of the low-paid workers in plantation agriculture, although this group steadily declined as a proportion of the workforce.

The stated purpose of this program was to reduce the considerable poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to better utilise the resources of the outer islands.

His most important contribution was to provide the necessary workforce for this project, which was extremely labour-intensive.

If the August 14th, 2008 EDN article was accurate about MIPS having over 500 employees at the time, then MIPS reduced their total workforce by 70 % between 2008 and 2010.

The 2001 census found that 5 percent of Paraguay ’ s workforce was under the age of 14.

The Czech workforce was exploited as conscripted labour by the Nazis.

Its workforce of over 100, 000 was organized into nine major divisions — Space, Aircraft, Defense Electronics, Commercial Electronics, Light Duty Automotive Components, Heavy Duty Automotive Components, Printing Presses, Valves and Meters, and Industrial Automation.

Between 2008 and 2012 this process was rapidly reversed, characterized by the fact that almost a quarter of Spain's workforce is currently unemployed.

This was quite unpopular with the workforce at both plants: as a result Skoda built Tatraplans for one year only before the model was discontinued in 1952.

The mine was first opened in 1805 and continued its operation until the end of the nineteenth century, when a workforce of 300 produced 8, 500 t of crude zinc annually.

Other data suggest the " revolution " was more directly influenced by the financial independence gained by many women who entered the workforce during and after World War II, making the revolution more about individual equality rather than biological independence.

That he was able to raise a workforce and resources sufficient to construct such an earthwork as Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.

During World War II, she was an advisor to several governmental groups, providing expertise on education and labor ( particularly women in the workforce ) for organizations such as for the War Manpower Commission, the Office of War Information, and the United States Navy.

One great accomplishment was rebuilding the Great Wall of China, but this, along with other large projects, strained the economy and angered the resentful workforce employed.

The colonial use of traditional law and structures of power was thus an integral part of the process of colonial domination ( Young 1994 ; Penvenne 1995 ; O ' Laughlin 2000 ) obsessed with the maximization of economic development and growth through the use of idle or unproductive African workforce.

It was assumed in early economic theories, reflecting the context in which the secondary sector of the economy was producing much more than the tertiary sector was able to produce at the time in most countries – to be a fungible resource, homogeneous, and easily interchangeable, and it was referred to simply as workforce or labor, one of three factors of production ( the others being land, and assumed-interchangeable assets of money and physical equipment ).

As the Great Depression began, Stone reduced his workforce and improved training.

Russians on fixed incomes ( the vast majority of the workforce ) saw their purchasing power drastically reduced, so while the stores might have been well stocked in the Yeltsin era, workers could now afford to buy little, if anything.

It cut operating costs by nearly $ 950 million a year, reduced its workforce by more than half, increased the generating capacity of its plants, stopped building nuclear plants, and developed a plan to meet the energy needs of the Tennessee Valley through the year 2020.

The militarisation of the workforce and the diversion of resources to the war greatly reduced the role of the DAF, and the KdF was largely wound up.

The workforce is reduced, some assets are sold off, etc.

Global employment at Unilever 2000 – 2008 Black represents employment numbers in Europe, light grey represents the Americas and dark grey represents Asia, Africa, and Middle East. Between 2000 and 2008 Unilever reduced global workforce numbers by 41 %, from 295, 000 to 174, 000.

A union representative said that Powell's had reduced its workforce by about 40 in the prior year through attrition, but felt that layoffs were still necessary because of a decline in sales of new books and a rise in health care costs.

As part of the drive for increased productivity in the late 1970s, BL reduced its workforce and number of plants, and strived to centralise its management activities.

During the 2008 recession Stocksbridge works reduced its workforce and output, focusing on producing lower quantities of high-value product for the aerospace and oil and gas markets.

Originally intended as a means of compensating women whose absence from the workforce reduced their superannuation contributions, the scheme offered a cash payment to women on the birth of their first and second children, or the first two children born after the election.

The workforce was reduced by 1. 5 % to 3, 526 in 1989, the number of passengers carried that year increased to 509659.

* Redundancy Fund ( Cassa integrazione guadagni, or CIG ): cash benefits provided as shock absorbers to those workers who are suspended or who work only for reduced time due to temporary difficulties of their factories, aiming to help the factories in financial difficulties, by relieving them from the costs of unused workforce

He cut the workforce from 13, 000 to 7, 000, reduced PolyGram's LP and cassette plants from eighteen to five and decreased the company's dependence on superstars by spreading the repertoire across different genres and nurturing national and regional talent.

Since Malcolm Walker's return to the company, Iceland has reduced the workforce by 500 jobs at the Deeside Head Office, with approximately 300 jobs moved in September as a result of a relocation of a distribution warehouse from Deeside to Warrington.

In the course of this multifaceted effort to attain optimum efficiency, San Miguel reduced its workforce by more than 16 percent, from a 1989 high of 39, 138 to 32, 832 by 1993.

They emphasize " the family, rather than the individual " as the " basic building block of our society ", and asserts that the promotion of stronger family units will result in reduced social problems and a more robust workforce.

Over the year Cobar's workforce reduced by 10 %.

During 2009 WPP reduced its workforce by around 14, 000 employees, or 12. 3 % of its then total staff numbers, in response to the onset of the 2008 – 2012 global recession.

The job eliminations were a cumulation of efforts that started in May when the workforce was reduced by 15 positions.

However the number of recruits reduced the number of young men that could go into the workforce, and this in combination with political restrictions led to widespread destitution.

At the time the collieries were nationalised in 1947, the workforce had reduced to 436.

In its heyday, 20, 000 people were employed there-the plant was very negatively affected by the break up of the Soviet Union and post Soviet economic problems-its workforce was reduced to ~ 1000 by 2005, and tractor production ceased in 2003.

He stated that a reduced tuition would make little impact on a student's decision between university and entering the workforce.