Sentences with phrase «as cheap labor»

At the same time, if a firm does take on a student, again, the business model becomes, «what is the return on investment» — such that students are often utilized as cheap labor as opposed to being tutored in a professional manner befitting our professional obligation which is assuring the public interest and our own collective reputation, and not always about billing for their time.

It's here they'll find not only stockpiled Mudokon eggs on sale to factory owners as cheap labor, but also the last can of Gabbiar, the disgusting delicacy that is raw Gabbit eggs.

Peasants are being driven from the countryside of their ancestors into the cities to be used as cheap labor.

Schindler describes his strong suit in creating panache or «the presentation,» while Stern's talent will be to recruit Jewish investors for capital, to provide «free» Jewish workers (as cheap labor) from the population, and to manage the business and financial side of the operation:

The terrible state of academic careers resulted not from sequestration but from the fundamental structure of a funding system that has long used graduate students and postdocs as cheap labor for grant - supported research, and as a consequence has produced too many Ph.D. researchers for the existing career opportunities.

They work long hours for tiny stipends, serve as cheap labor for their advisers, and sometimes can't even tell you — within a standard deviation of years — when they anticipate graduating.

I felt I wasn't developing as a scientist, but was instead being used as cheap labor.

Men have protected their money - based identity by mouthing their self - serving, ideology of mother and home while using women as cheap labor.

They were used as cheap labor.

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In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

Uber uses technology to displace low - skilled workers who may have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.

But President Elect Trump has characterized the program as a way for companies to undercut American wages with cheap foreign labor.

As did other Rust Belt states, however, it suffered a devastating decline beginning in the 1970s, when manufacturers moved to the U.S. South, Mexico and other foreign countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, lower taxes and fewer regulations.

To combat a tightening talent market, companies must focus on improving productivity and operational efficiencies, rather than relying on cheap and plentiful labor, as some have in the past.

Race to the bottom: A term for dog - eat - dog competition by which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the cheapest market, not by raising wages and labor productivity.

Places with cheap labor can not industrialize on their own, and they can always throw warm bodies at the problem as it usually cheaper to hire more workers than rethink processes, design machinery and roll out new systems.

The impact will be much broader, as soaring transport prices encourage higher - cost local production to replace sourcing from cheap labor markets halfway around the world.

Profit margins are eroding too as the pushback against globalization prompts multinational firms to cut back on their use of cheap overseas labor.

Put another way: As long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming laboAs long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming laboas cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming labor.

the community as they call it, no longer has a safe haven in South America or Mexico either — to streach their dollar on cheap labor and protection.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.

It secures the already developing pattern of combining U.S. capital with cheap Mexican labor and still healthy Mexican soils so as to produce goods cheaply for international consumption.

The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.

The Mexican mestizo was abhorred as a mongrel who was good only for cheap labor.

One reason for the next labor war will be the rise of cheap in MLB, as chronicled by Grant Brisbee.

As an alternative to overpacking landfills or recycling domestically, some industrialized countries have found it more convenient and cheaper to export e-waste to developing countries, such as China and India, where labor costs are low, and occupational and environmental laws are lax or not well implementeAs an alternative to overpacking landfills or recycling domestically, some industrialized countries have found it more convenient and cheaper to export e-waste to developing countries, such as China and India, where labor costs are low, and occupational and environmental laws are lax or not well implementeas China and India, where labor costs are low, and occupational and environmental laws are lax or not well implemented.

As for the sporks, I'm not sure it's a liability issue so much as a cost issue — I assume that the disposable spork is cheaper than the labor needed to wash real silverware, and cheaper even than a disposable knife and forAs for the sporks, I'm not sure it's a liability issue so much as a cost issue — I assume that the disposable spork is cheaper than the labor needed to wash real silverware, and cheaper even than a disposable knife and foras a cost issue — I assume that the disposable spork is cheaper than the labor needed to wash real silverware, and cheaper even than a disposable knife and fork.

He wasn't like Ronald Reagan, who took on Communism; Nixon didn't try to CHANGE China, he saw it as a source of CHEAP LABOR and a market for his big business pals.

Similarly, the U.S. enjoys the fruits of cheap labor with very little regulations without having to work in sweatshops themselves, and the trade between the two is generally seen as a net benefit for both.

The academic research enterprise has long functioned as a pyramid scheme based on cheap workers, notes labor market economist Paula Stephan in her magisterial book, How Economics Shapes Science.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

In essence, China has been loaning Chinese solar module manufacturers in that country money at low - interest rates for both production and installation, even when installation takes place in other countries such as Germany, which makes Chinese products unbeatably cheap when paired with Chinese advantages in labor and logistics costs.

That, as numerous experts and reports have argued, is the «pyramid» system of depending on the cheap labor of temporary trainees financed by professors» grants to do the work of funded research.

The researchers estimate that in their study, each sample cost US$ 35, excluding labor, to test, but the cost will fall as DNA sequencing technology becomes cheaper.

Robotics never stopped advancing, but as the dream of fully automated factories slipped further into the future, manufacturing moved to countries with cheap labor.

The response of government, industry, or academic institutions to this crisis has been to lobby to increase the quota for foreign scientists using J - 1, O, and H - 1B work visas as incentives on the basis that cheaper labor is?

~ Shawn Achor As the owner of a coaching business, you're more than just a certified life coach; you're also the marketing department, the CEO, CFO and the cheap labor.

Oskar Schindler purchased in 1939 a factory in Poland, as he thought up a get - rich - quick scheme of using Jews as a source of cheap labor.

All this crapulence is set against the backdrop of an annual Labor Day competition that pits family against family in a battle of log - rolling, three - legged races, and egg tosses as Cheaper by the Dozen 2 tries unsuccessfully to provide the ultra-competitive Tom and Jimmy some sort of backstory reaching back to dual unhappy childhoods.

This is no longer the case, as we are seeing a reversal of cheap food, energy and raw materials, and labor power.

Fong says that in order to achieve equality with dominant, capitalistic countries like the United States, officials also pushed the idea that the country needed to become a center of finance and technology — not just provide cheap labor, as it had been doing.

The crankshaft of an engine is what converts the up and down motion of the pistons into a rotation which can be transferred to the wheels, replacing a crankshaft is a big job as the entire engine must be removed from the car and stripped down to get to it, which is very labor intensive, it can often be cheaper to buy a used engine which is working and fitting that instead.

The previous poster have great examples of rotors in need of replacement but I worked as a mechanic for years and rotors have become so cheap for most vehicles the easiest thing to do is replace them as paying someone to resurface often costs more on labor than buying new rotors.

And indeed, the original Underground Railroad drew its name from an analogy with a powerful new method of travel — built by slaves (or imported cheap labor treated as free men in name only).

Say all you want about the lower cost of design and online promo, but when you factor in the labor hours — yours — its not as cheap as you think.

It shows the cruelty of the false hopes raised by those masters pretending to «humane» treatment, through promises of manumission extended as a calculated tool to secure loyalty when an owner took the risk of educating a slave for office work, for example; or the deceitful «kindness» used to secure compliance of seemingly freed slaves, in perpetuating programs of sterilization, medical experimentation, and of course cheap labor.

So authors are becoming just another third - world labor force, like the rest of the low - paid, under - employed American workers in a country that has devalued craftsmanship in as many industries as possible, all so that the jobs pay less, the top echelons get richer, the consumers get cheap, mediocre goods, and the workers get shafted.

We can even explain part of the suppression of domestic wages as being due to competition from cheaper foreign labor (although this explanation is partial at best).

While generic parts may be as much as 38 % cheaper to buy, they could cost you more in terms of labor.