Sentences with phrase «by slave labor»

From a magical realism viewpoint, maybe Whitehead was trying to say that the railroad was built by slave labor to help slaves escape.

Oh, and Thor is also at the mercy of Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, the ruthless and immortal and absolutely stark raving mad ruler of Sakaar, where the hedonism is fueled by slave labor.

I would much rather spend more $ on better quality and have fewer pieces that I love, than to spend less $ on crap garments that drape terrible and are made by slave labor.

If the cultivation of the greatest amount of Mill's higher or intellectual pleasures could be realized in a certain society only by the slave labor of a small group within that society, then it appears that we would, according to the principle of utility, be required to enslave that group in order to promote the greatest happiness.

Walmart is the epitome of how the devil would run a business if there was one; exploiting workers, selling goods that are made by slave labor.

And during the pre-Civil War years America's most valuable export was not capital goods or financial services, it was cotton, mostly produced by slave labor.

Not exact matches

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

By then, even the aristocrats will be afraid, as all the economic slave labor upon which they depend will have perished.

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

Slave labor, he believed, was unfair competition to «free labor,» and that argument was carried forward by Abraham, who was a free labor advocate throughout his years as a Whig and, later, as a Republican.

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.

Sure, Mitt Romney gives more to «charity» (meaning, directly to the Mormon Church), but then, he's gotten incredibly wealthy by shutting down profitable American companies in order to benefit personally from the near - slave labor available in China.

and that therefore the British could be appealed to «as strongly by their regard for the slaveholder as for the slave, to labor in this cause» (MBMF 417).

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

Or in the case of electronics you may by products made with slave labor in Vietnam.

If that sounds absurd and horrifying, keep in mind that it's possible that up to 75 percent of chocolate consumed in developed countries is harvested by child labor, many of whom are outright slaves.

The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

Evidence of human trafficking and child slave labor have been found in the supply chain, according to a 2010 investigation by BBC Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon.

This part of the series presents the reaction by individuals and parties to the continued use of slave labor

This shadowy company, headed by the creepy Niander Wallace (Jared Leto, Suicide Squad, 2016) wants to find this mystery child too as its secrets could unlock the potential to vastly expand replicant production and create more slave labor.

THE 71st GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WINNERS Here are the winners for the 71st Golden Globe Awards brought to you by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA THE WINNER: 12 Years a Slave OTHER NOMINESS: Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena Rush BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS - DRAMA THE WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine OTHER NOMINEES: Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks Kate Winslet, Labor Day BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR - DRAMA THE WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club OTHER NOMINESS: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Tom Hanks, CaptainRead Moreby The Hollywood Foreign Press Association BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA THE WINNER: 12 Years a Slave OTHER NOMINESS: Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena Rush BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS - DRAMA THE WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine OTHER NOMINEES: Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks Kate Winslet, Labor Day BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR - DRAMA THE WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club OTHER NOMINESS: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Tom Hanks, CaptainRead MoreBY AN ACTRESS - DRAMA THE WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine OTHER NOMINEES: Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks Kate Winslet, Labor Day BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR - DRAMA THE WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club OTHER NOMINESS: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Tom Hanks, CaptainRead MoreBY AN ACTOR - DRAMA THE WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club OTHER NOMINESS: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Tom Hanks, CaptainRead More →

The Battleship Island Near the end of World War II, a Korean independence activist plots to save his countrymen imprisoned by the Japanese as slave labor on the island of Hashima.

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

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).

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.

Slave Labor Graphics, Dan Vado's comic book publishing company behind Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and Milk And Cheese, has announced that it will cease publishing single issues of its comics book series, in favour of digital releases instead, which will then be followed by a print graphic novel version.

Describing herself as an «art employer,» Lucie Fontaine avoids harnessing her practice to a specific figure of the art field, preferring to cultivate a modus operandi driven solely by her relationship with two employees, a concept of self - generated labor similar to the Master - Slave dialectic presented by Hegel.

Disputed Banksy Back at Auction — The alleged Banksy street artwork, Slave Labor (Bunting Boy), which depicts a young boy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was made.

It's not like you can look on the back of the label and read that the product was made by a subsidiary of a Koch brothers holding, or Monsanto, or with slave labor (seriously).

As a result, many foreign victims of egregious crimes — ranging from torture and slave labor to the execution of loved ones — that were sanctioned, endorsed or commissioned by corporations have found justice in our courts.

If only the vast majority of patents owned by US corporations could be forced to utilize their patents by manufacturing them here instead of using foreign slave labor...!)

Are you willing to hold onto massed produced items, made by Chinese slave labor for 30 + years just in case the kids «mght» want it?