Building Inventories Some of the business borrowing is for capital spending to buy labor-saving automated machinery, Mr. Hawkins said.

As the novel opens, Robert awaits delivery of new labor-saving machinery to the mill.

During the novel, Robert Moore installs new labor-saving machinery in his mill and becomes the target of Luddite attacks.

Mr. Giordano suggested that this could mean that investment in labor-saving machinery was "wobbling."

Indeed, the emphasis at many companies is on improving the productivity of existing operations by installing efficient, labor-saving machinery - and not on building new factories.

Others see themselves as "neo-Luddites," successors of the early-19th-century British textile workers who smashed labor-saving machinery in the belief that the equipment threatened their jobs.

Along came the steam-engine and labor-saving machinery.

Decentralized cities, labor-saving machinery for everybody, luxuries-it's all possibl , but I've a feeling that we're staring right into a mess of trouble.

In other nations, such as El Salvador, minimum wage laws encouraged employers to use labor-saving machinery.

Union Camp, as a result, has stopped hiring and has also installed labor-saving machinery.