Sentences with phrase «by cheaper labour»

Slowly but surely, US manufacturing & its blue collar workforce began to give back its windfall gains — displaced domestically by capital & technology, and internationally by cheaper labour & costs.

Not exact matches

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

As several writers have pointed out, American companies such as Apple could make iPhones in the United States because printing out products and having them assembled by robots will be even cheaper than the human labour in China.

A study issued by CIBC World Markets in March suggested that a system of carbon tariffs, combined with oil prices more than $ 100 a barrel, «could reverse the migration of certain manufacturing industries that have left North America for much cheaper labour markets in China.»

In some ways, that was just a matter of domestic Canadian cheap labour being edged out of jobs by foreign cheaper labour.

But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well - being in heaven.

In the 80s, these countries, and also China, were able to take advantage of the world crisis by playing a part in globalisation of exchange of goods (through their relative advantage of cheap labour), and calling for foreign investment and by signing up their development projects within a nationally governed strategy (in the case of Korea and Korea, but not the South - east Asian countries).

This reminds me very much on the tactics used by Greenpeace, I think it was, when they focused on Apple's use of Chinese corporations employing overworked and cheap Chinese labour to manufacture their digital devices.

They want to be able to choose people — perhaps on a «points - based system» — who will most benefit the economy: superstars of the future — unhindered by «backwards» cultural tradition and able to innovate and drive forward a new economy; cheap labour which — free from EU regulations — can be brought into work hard on construction projects and then sent packing afterwards.

He triggered claims Labour was backing the radical plan by saying drink was «ludicrously cheap» and that public concern was rising.

Using the education of Welsh pupils, striving for attainment in some of the most challenged and deprived communities of Britain, as a means to score points off the Labour Party, is a cheap trick which will be seen for what it is by the Welsh people.

«Our ambitious insulation plan will see the next Labour government take real action against fuel poverty, making homes cheaper to heat, improving people's health by improving our housing, creating new jobs and reducing carbon emissions.

But to upbraid Milne as fascist sympathiser by way of a cheap publicity stunt is as offensive as it is inaccurate, and it is hardly surprising if readiness to badmouth senior Labour appointees counts as a black mark against her when seeking another stab at being a PPC.

Last week, Ukip unveiled election posters depicting an out of work construction worker with the slogan: «EU policy at work: British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.»

Another featured a builder sat on the pavement with the message: «EU policy at work: British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.»

The battle with Unite, and Miliband's proposed reforms to the union relationship, are set to reduce their income by several million quid a year; the Evening Standard reports that the party still owes # 7 million dating back to the «loans for lordships» scandal in 2006; and there is a growing row about the millions of pounds worth of extraordinarily cheap credit Labour obtained from the crisis - stricken Co-Op Bank.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Ms Harman said Labour shared people's concerns over wages being suppressed by cheaper, foreign workers.

A Conservative spokesperson said: «This is a pretty cheap attempt by a Labour - linked union to distract from the overwhelming evidence of antisemitism in Labour that has emerged in recent weeks.

Plaid Cymru Assembly Members decided to vote against Labour's legislation as they were offended by the Public Services Minister calling them a «cheap date».

Jeremy Corbyn's cheerleader was joined by the Labour leader's right - hand man Seumas Milne at the London pub, where the cheapest fizz is # 51.

By keeping all those expensive, bothersome faculty posts down to a minimum, and expanding the «cheap and disposable labour» side.

They won some battles along the way, but by preserving expensive blue collar pay, perks & work practices (in the face of cheaper international labour / competition), they consigned a huge percentage of their membership to permanent unemployment.

Many of these jobs have been replaced by automation or they have moved overseas to countries where labour is cheaper.

Make no mistake about it; this is a labour of love by Remedy and they obviously worked really hard on Quantum Break, taking risks and striving to commit to their vision but ultimately, it all breaks down like a cheap Rolex you bought for the price of a box of staples at a car boot sale.

Kids blinded by the glamour of the games industry are cheap labour.

«Even though EU policy has managed to reduce CO2 emissions domestically,» Peiser notes, «this was only achieved by shifting energy - intensive and heavy industries overseas: to locations where there are no stringent emission limits, where energy and labour is cheap and which are now growing much faster than the EU.»

The ESA also establishes an administrative procedure operated by the Ministry of Labour (MOL) which provides a cheap and relatively accessible (emphasis on relatively) legal mechanism for workers to enforce their rights.

The cynical argument that law firms will continue to recruit cheap labour in the form of trainees, rather than more expensive trained and experienced lawyers, doesn't really hold water for a sector driven by quality demands.

«Europe and the UK began exporting their skills to places like the Middle East — in the UAE, 90 per cent of the population is made up of imported skilled people — but that export of continental skills has since been replaced by cheaper skilled labour from India and the Philippines.»