Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An industrial unit of production equal to the work one person can produce in an hour.
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- noun The amount of
work that can be done by one person in anhour .
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Examples
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Even if aircraft, say, are now made out of components manufactured all over the world and brought together for assembly, this doesn't change the fact that the steps of the supply chain with high value-added per man-hour will take place in some nations and not others.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even if aircraft, say, are now made out of components manufactured all over the world and brought together for assembly, this doesn't change the fact that the steps of the supply chain with high value-added per man-hour will take place in some nations and not others.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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And high value-added per man-hour is the only possible basis of sustainable high wages.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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And high value-added per man-hour is the only possible basis of sustainable high wages.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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And high value-added per man-hour is the only possible basis of sustainable high wages.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even if aircraft, say, are now made out of components manufactured all over the world and brought together for assembly, this doesn't change the fact that the steps of the supply chain with high value-added per man-hour will take place in some nations and not others.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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When we liberate it from our project performance man-hour calculations and/or budget our jobs correctly with our staff and clients, when we make it more inclusive of our families and communities, and when our clients see the added value in the discourse we're enabling, it becomes richer and so do our cities and works of architecture.
Earl G. Jackson IV, AIA: Urban Design: A New Way of Practice in a Smaller World AIA Earl G. Jackson IV 2011
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When we liberate it from our project performance man-hour calculations and/or budget our jobs correctly with our staff and clients, when we make it more inclusive of our families and communities, and when our clients see the added value in the discourse we're enabling, it becomes richer and so do our cities and works of architecture.
Earl G. Jackson IV, AIA: Urban Design: A New Way of Practice in a Smaller World AIA Earl G. Jackson IV 2011
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Take, for example, the likely fact that a flat 30 percent tariff on all imports would not be enough to relocate to the U.S. industries with a low value-added added per man-hour, like t-shirts or circuit board assembly, as the difference between foreign and domestic labor costs is too large for an industries whose production cost mainly consists of semiskilled labor.
Ian Fletcher: How to Think Our Way Out of Our Trade Crisis Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even if aircraft, say, are now made out of components manufactured all over the world and brought together for assembly, this doesn't change the fact that the steps of the supply chain with high value-added per man-hour will take place in some nations and not others.
Ian Fletcher: Why Free Trade Can't Abolish International Economic Rivalry Ian Fletcher 2011
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