By exporting jobs, the U.S. has outsourced the less scalable and more linear components of production, assigning them to the citizens of more mathematical and culturally rigid states, who are happy to be paid by the hour to work on other people's ideas.

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Others, sensing the limitation of being paid by the hour, are trying to develop new ways to capture the value their work can create.

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The European Union, by contrast, forbids employers to pay less per hour for the same work when it is done part time than when it is done full time.

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Some of those outlets call him in advance for work and he charges by the hour to sit and wait for the shot.

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Hayter took advantage of good work from Billy Sharp just before the quarter-hour to break the deadlock by side-footing home past Luke Steele.

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Now, three hours is a lot of time to commit already, especially as some of us have kids, so extending the evening by an hour to fit in a meal wouldn't work.

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It codified the 60-hour work week and stipulated that all factories, mines and mills had to shut down by 2 p.m.

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