Over time, joint ventures spread, using foreign equipment and inexpensive Chinese labor.

Hospitals and physicians saw women in nursing as a source of free or inexpensive labor.

American Standard says it is not just the inexpensive labor that makes Bulgaria attractive.

But they represent threats to countries heavily dependent on agriculture, farm imports or the use of inexpensive labor.

Prosperity, so said many in charge, depended on high profits and inexpensive labor.

After the wall fell, East Germany was thought to be a new source of inexpensive labor.

In Mexico, the female worker is ideal because she is seen as docile and inexpensive labor.

Because most of the employees are unionized, the company is not benefiting from inexpensive labor, he said.

Rather than make such investments, farmers mostly focused on lobbying government for easier access to inexpensive labor.

In nations where there is still a ready supply of inexpensive labour the middle classes may still be able to afford servants.