"Many of these kids are from families of low or unskilled labor," Mr. Casella said.

For one thing, they must contend with countries with even lower labor and production costs, like South Korea.

You cannot take this away from us with low labors and filthy hands.

Though there is a significant body of highly skilled homeworkers, particularly in information technology, most homeworkers are considered low skilled labour.

Similar companies in India, however, were much cheaper and more profitable due to the lower labor costs there.

Guest workers typically perform low or semi-skilled agricultural, industrial, or domestic labor in countries with workforce shortages, and they return home once their contract has expired.

Social Goods Co-op mainly works with local community for woman from low income families and the low skilled labour.

Its comparatively low labor costs have made it an attractive place for Western European manufacturers to set up factories.

Those countries also have the advantage of infinitely lower labour, land and processing costs.

Second, the family units were extremely competitive (on account of very low over heads and very cheap and docile labour).