Sentences with phrase «become cheap labor»

The Cuban people, they fear, would become cheap labor for the Yanqui capitalists, with the regime taking the money and paying off workers with soap, toothpaste, and other necessities in short supply.

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«Build your factory in Mexico or someplace else where labor is cheaper» became the thinking, he says.

After all, labor in the region is becoming less cheap these days, and manufacturers are increasingly turning to robots — just last week, the South China Morning Post reported that electronics manufacturer Foxconn managed to do away with 60,000 jobs in just one factory, through the introduction of robotic systems.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Postdocs hired at U.S. universities have become, for some time now, a new kind of cheap labor... who are most of the time only allowed to do those experiments that please their bosses, and, on the other hand, can not many times contribute to the creative scientific process.

«Postdocs hired at U.S. universities have become, for some time now, a new kind of cheap labor... who are most of the time only allowed to do those experiments that please their bosses, and, on the other hand, can not many times contribute to the creative scientific process,» he says.

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.

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 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.

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.

Dominated by fast fashion conglomerates such as H&M and Zara, producing massive amounts of cheap clothes at a rapid pace, contemporary fashion has become an industry whose labor practices and environmental impact are unethical and unsustainable.

You are not supposed to say these things, either here or in Europe - apparently people have become addicted to cheap labor for the service jobs that they themselves don't want.

That is why, for example, energy has become cheaper according to various metrics — most notably, the number of hours a worker must labor in order to obtain objective amounts of energy — and even the «number of years remaining at current rates of consumption» have risen for certain energy sources, despite their finite nature.

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.