Sentences with phrase «by cheap labor»

U.S. capital, attracted to Mexico by cheap labor, will not intentionally adopt policies that raise the cost of labor.

Not exact matches

Lee keeps the country's labor force cheap and disciplined by setting strict guidelines for both wage increases and working conditions.

Wells Fargo is under investigation by the Labor Department, which wants to see whether the bank has been pushing people with cheaper corporate 401 (k) plans to transfer their holdings to Wells's more expensive individual retirement plans.

But it seems to me that they were given away by American employers for the sake of cheap labor.

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.

The chained CPI has been developed and refined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to recognize that when the prices of similar goods change, consumers often switch to the cheaper option.

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

The marijuana was then trafficked to the U.S., where it was purchased and consumed by people who may not have been aware (or even cared) that their cheap high was the result of a system involving slave labor.

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.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

It can do so only by using the cheapest labor possible.

On this the holiest of Capitalisms holidays lets us celebrate crass consumption by driving our gas guzzling SUVs to the strip mall on the other side of town and fighting the other sheeple for latest Chinese sweat labor made cheap plastic gadget.

The Export Processing Zones of many developing countries are catering to the needs of the transnational companies by way of providing cheap labor.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

Aid to poor countries can then be replaced by investment, which is attracted by cheap and docile labor and low environmental standards.

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

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.

Was Miller troubled by specific transgressions of particular employers or by the deep and pervasive dysfunctional nature of the «pyramid» system of academic research, which depends on the systematic exploitation of cheap graduate student and postdoc labor?

So, at long last it appears that at least some young scientists are listening not to the traditional blandishments of an academic system in need of their cheap labor, but rather to an unmistakable economic signal urging them to improve their personal situations by seeking careers outside of academe.

The best, first example of this may just be the Quino in southern California, simply because it would be cheap and easy — a few days» labor by a few people to relocate an insect that is neither prolific nor aggressive — to help it find a safer clime.

In fact, Oskar Schindler (Neeson, Darkman) was an opportunist who saw the ability to make lots of money with the cheapest of labor during the war period, by taking Jews out of the German camps and employing them in his factory.

Zach Galifianakis is Marty Huggins, the doofus who runs the local tourism board and is backed by billionaire brothers who want to «insource» cheap labor by buying the district and then selling it at a profit to China.

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.

The Federation controls society with an iron fist of oppression by the government with «The Fall» connecting them; a giant elevator travels through the earth's core, which transports cheap labor from the colony to Britain.

By strategically substituting technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive), moreover, schools can be far more cost - effective than they are now — which is crucial in a future of tight budgets.

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).

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis.

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.

Like other product vendors, it does this by taking advantage of cheap labor costs in China and Brazil, and then selling its wares at enormous markups.

Saturna argues that The Market May Be Cheaper Than It Looks because the Consumer Price Index (CPI) provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) understates the true rate of inflation, a key -LSB-...]

China enjoyed more than a decade of double - digit economic growth based on cheap labor and massive exports, and its massive population of industrious people, directed by its powerful central government, has created a booming middle class eager to achieve the prosperity of developed nations.

Saturna argues that The Market May Be Cheaper Than It Looks because the Consumer Price Index (CPI) provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) understates the true rate of inflation, a key input to the CAPE calculation:

Fusing the «presentness» of his own footage with the past evoked by archival footage, Chieh - jen points to the oversights of official history and its collusion with capitalism's unrelenting movement toward greater profitability, whether through technological advancement or the perpetual search for cheaper labor.

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.

Experience hours upon hours of SHEER ENJOYMENT imagining how, during the second coming of Christ, Ann Lee, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, realized that «heterosexual marriage had produced a multitude of starving children whose cheap labor was exploited by factory workers.»

This means that the workers and communities are being exploited twice, first by clothing makers seeking cheap labor and lax environmental standards outside of the United States, and second by the everlasting and disproportionate impacts of climate pollution.

Trump's deaf ear to problems facing middle Americans displaced from the workforce by American manufacturing industry leaving the country to chase after unregulated cheap foreign labor is why they fled the Democratic party and put him office?

Let me preface it by saying we have empowered China with our money due to lust for cheap labor and goods.

Outsourcing production overseas, where labor is by and large cheaper, not only contributes to our country's unemployment rate and shrinking garment industry, but also helps keep overseas sweatshops and factories with unfair working conditions in business.

Daniel T. Schwartz, Director of the University of Washington's Clean Energy Institute, said a commitment to renewable energy by major companies like Starbucks will ultimately impact the cost of clean electricity across the board: «Everyone responsible for building a clean energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.»

For years, the legal elites have benefited from this drastic oversupply and the cheap labor generated by these nasty unsanitary debt repayment mills.

If there is no reason for you to be at your office in person, there's no reason your job can't be sent overseas to be done by cheap foreign labor.

Those providers will leverage lawyer time and cost by standardizing, then rerouting many «legal tasks» from lawyers to machines and cheaper labor sources.

Moreover, it's a win - win situation for the firm, which gets the benefits of cheap labor by lawyers who are grateful for an opportunity to have a job at all.

Essentially, the business is built around legal outsourcing — finding ways of reducing the reducible tasks of the legal business by farming it out to cheaper labor and automated systems.

Apple needs to put the corporate grievances aside and only do what's best for the customers — use Samsung batteries made by robots instead of cheap Chinese knock offs made by human labor (prone to errors and hence shorter life span) Come on Apple you make so much money you don't need to shave costs by using shoddy Chinese batteries when a better alternative exists.