"Cheap labor" refers to workers who are paid very low wages compared to others in their industry or region.
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The trend of going to secondary markets
for cheaper labor or rents hasn't really hit the life sciences sector.
With fewer farmers producing as many or more products, and others available
as cheap labor for industry, the overall productivity of workers is quickly increased.
Most major developed countries can't grow rapidly, and there's really nothing that can be done about it — competition from
cheaper labor in developing countries is forcing developed country wages down.
First, although rising wages are obviously great for workers and the overall economy, they can be difficult for low - margin companies that rely
on cheap labor — like retail stores.
Some website owners also end up paying
cheap labor from 3rd world countries to do this task for them.
It is true that some of the savings created
by cheap labor were passed along to the public in terms of lower prices.
But online schools have negligible building costs and
cheaper labor costs, partly because they pay teachers low wages, records and interviews show.
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.
The British encouraged the migration for they
needed cheap labor to work the lucrative sugar cane fields.
Also important is to choose a good supervisor, one who won't treat you like «
cheap labor at the service of a great project,» he added.
But they're also turning to incentives to entice workers, raising costs for an industry in
which cheap labor is an essential ingredient to making cheap food.
Long gone are the days
when cheap labor was the most important input for manufacturers.
But in an industry
where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.
Like men to be paid more for the same work, or he doesn't really care, and just likes
getting cheap labor.
These individuals are in a
sense cheap labor, and here the «trainee» definition is not only inadequate but also inaccurate.
The majority of candidates don't last, and the two year revolving door of
cheap labor keeps costs associated with salaries and benefits low.
I have «cheap» properties and since the cost of living is much lower in these areas, you can usually find people willing to
charge cheaper labor rates to complete the work.
But it seems to me that they were given away by American employers for the sake
of cheap labor.
I felt I wasn't developing as a scientist, but was instead being used
as cheap labor.
She called for tougher legislation and taxes on foreign imports to ensure higher - wage American jobs are not lost to
cheap labor in other countries.
The only reason companies are willing to give you money is that, within your prospective area of technical expertise, problems arise
which cheaper labor and automation can't currently solve.
What happened was they found out that you get what you pay for because they went overseas, they
got cheap labor and they want educated labor.
• In 1980 a few multi-national companies were beginning to move production to countries
with cheaper labor.
But even noneconomists know manufacturing plants and jobs
chase cheap labor around the globe.
A conundrum for freelancers is negotiating a livable rate for your work when companies can go elsewhere and find
very cheap labor on freelance marketplace sites.
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).
Most online sportsbook are located in in countries with
extremely cheap labor, less regulator oversight (red tape), and a much lower tax bill.
«They have spent a lot of time and money creating a business model that fits within the rules so they can use the visas to
offer cheaper labor,» said Bruce Morrison, a lawyer representing an association of American engineers.
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.
Japan's nuclear industry has relied on
cheap labor since the first plants, including Fukushima, opened in the 1970s.
It's not
about cheap labor — it's about offering people an experience... It's one of those great fantasies.»
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.
Moreover, the fact that U.S. firms typically sponsor their H - 1Bs for green cards gives them not
only cheap labor, but also immobile labor.
Many companies, chasing
cheaper labor still, moved to Asia, and AI, which once made jeans for a host of brands including Gap, now works only for Levi Strauss.