The use of foreign workers

The use of foreign labor, whether slaves or immigrants, has been a basic tendency in the development of industrial economies. In most accounts of capitalist development, the struggle by employers to recruit and maintain an adequate labor supply has been overshadowed by the problems of realization, most particularly, market expansion. However, a central precondition for the realization of the surplus-generating possibilities of a geographic location is the formation of a politically and economically suitable labor supply. In the study of centrally planned economies, the securing of an adequate labor supply has been more prominent than in that of free market economies

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