Sentences with phrase «slave labour in»

But I felt deep shame about buying something that must involve slave labour in its production (how else do you make a pair of sandshoes, transport them to Australia and still make a profit with a $ 4 price tag?).

Their main temple, Crocodilopolis, was built on Mount Azimuth using slave labour in the place of a demolished temple to the Goddess.

Slave labour in the forests was far too valuable to waste on tending vegetables.

Not exact matches

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratlabour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratLabour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratLabour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

We enslave and abuse them, we take over their countries and their resources, we exploit their poverty by investing in their poverty and virtually use them as slave labour, as we close down factories in our own country to make a fortune out of others misery, while at the same time put people out of work in the home country.

When black, yellow and brown people have been free to migrate, it has generally been as slaves or as cheap labour for whites - for example, blacks in the Americas, Indians m Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the West Indies, Koreans in Japan.»

Set in the future, humanity's genetic engineering technology allows for a slave labour force of «replicants» indistinguishable from humans.

Slave labour, one milliard persons in unvoluntary hunger, life - saving medicine not available where needed too, polluted air and water, murders,...; what does any doctrine of science say about these things?

In ancient civilisations there were plenty of slaves to carry out laborious work, and so there was no incentive to build machines, but in the Middle Ages Catholic theology taught that unnecessary work was unworthy of the dignity of man, and so great efforts were made to develop labour - saving machinerIn ancient civilisations there were plenty of slaves to carry out laborious work, and so there was no incentive to build machines, but in the Middle Ages Catholic theology taught that unnecessary work was unworthy of the dignity of man, and so great efforts were made to develop labour - saving machinerin the Middle Ages Catholic theology taught that unnecessary work was unworthy of the dignity of man, and so great efforts were made to develop labour - saving machinery.

In my opinion the best thing we can do (both for the environment and our animal friends) is buying local, seasonal produce, that doesn't involve slave labour.

Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.

So I asked them 17 questions on issues like breastfeeding support, compliance with the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, health claims on their packaging, free formula samples, audits of their marketing practices, the history of the boycott, chocolate and slave labour, sodium in processed foods and more...

(Hint: building a few houses in New Orleans five years after Katrina does not make up for using slave labour.

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

A fellow - traveler in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too, thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.

The predicament of de-unionised labour, of those who live in conditions of economic dependence, of those in particular who live in dependence on violent partners, and of entire citizen - bodies whose representative assemblies have lost power to executives — all these would appear to a neo-Roman theorist to be examples of being made to live like slaves.

On the panel was Momentum vice chair Jackie Walker, who was suspended by the Labour party earlier this year for a Facebook post in which she linked Jewish people to the slave trade.

Cameroon has a lengthy history of political and social repression, beginning with pre-colonial contact with European explorers in the 16th century, the transatlantic slave trade, forced labour and colonisation (first as a German protectorate until the end of WWI, and then divided among the French and British into two colonised Cameroons).

Some Ghanaian agents mislead people and promise them mouth - watering salaries and incentives to take them to these countries where they end up in slave labour.

Thousands of people are used as slave labour to carry military supplies, and forced to walk in front of army columns as human minesweepers.

We'd never allow what amounts to slave labour practices in Australia, so why are people okay buying items from overseas made in those conditions?

Plantation owners introduced clock time to further regulate the labour of slaves in order to keep up with the increasing demand fueled by a developing industrialization, particularly in Britain.

According to federal prosecutor Daniel Avelino, many of these companies have a track record of illegal practices: «Almost half of the companies involved in this scam have other law suits pending for environmental crimes or the use of slave labour, amongst other things.»

It is also important to note that this was at a time when the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade was a major source of economic gain for North American and European powers, who used un-free labour of Africans to amass the wealth that allowed these regions to enjoy otherwise unimaginable luxury and leisure and which would later drive the West's Industrial Revolution (also built on the backs of Blacks, through the use of exploited Africans who, in Africa, extracted the natural resources used to build Western cities, factories and products of the Industrial Revolution).

Recently there has been much publicity about graduates working for nothing, or indeed even paying to work, in the hope of making an impression and getting a paid job) see for example The Mail Online, 4 March 2010 — «The Slave Labour Graduates.»)

Dixon ended the speech with a quote from the German philosopher Leibniz, that many supporters of legal AI and automation will no doubt strongly agree with: «It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation, which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.»

If you still hold the irresponsible employee mentality of trading time for money from when you were a drone in the labour force, or you habitually goof off, you'll never accumulate any significant wealth and will likely remain a debt slave for life.