Sentences with phrase «cheap labor in»

But to compete with the cheap labor in Chinese textile mills, he needs an inexpensive energy source.

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.

Book Review: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market.

It was often cheap labor in emerging markets that, more than two decades ago, led companies in developed markets to move company jobs away from the home country either to company owned facilities (off - shoring) or to third parties (out - sourcing) in developing markets.

It still has some of the cheapest labor in the world, he pointed out.

Maquilas in Mexico have also lost some work over the years to cheaper labor in Asia, including China.

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.

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

«The NAFTA trade agreement encouraged «off - shoring» or the placement of U.S. manufacturing in its neighbors due to better labor laws, cheaper exchange rates and / or lower wages,» added Darby.

In 2014 seven building contractors were arrested on allegations they had collaborated with the Naples mafia, the Camorra, to obtain cheap labor.

In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracIn an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracin search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracin essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

Baxter won't object to working in less - populous locations, where it's cheap to build but hard to find labor.

Cities across the Midwest made the list of best places overall for starting a business, and several ranked high in categories including cheapest office space and lowest labor costs.

Meanwhile, immigration restrictions make it more difficult to import the cheap labor that would be competitive with overseas operations; for an example, see the debacle now taking place in Alabama after the enactment of a draconian immigration law.

«Rapidly urbanizing cities in the frontier markets of Africa and Southeast Asia will benefit from favorable demographics, cheap labor and a rising middle class,» said LaSalle's Gordon.

While China's history was built on cheap labor it now has to invest in robotics.

Li & Fung — the most important company that most American shoppers have never heard of — has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first in China, then elsewhere in Asia, including Bangladesh.

Substantially lower labor costs have enabled the company to produce cheaper cameras and counter the Japanese in most foreign markets.

Li & Fung has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first in China, then elsewhere in Asia, including Bangladesh.

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.

The answer lies in the fact that the U.S. used to have a relatively closed economy whereas now, labor gets replaced either with a tech solution or cheaper foreign - born labor.

As did other Rust Belt states, however, it suffered a devastating decline beginning in the 1970s, when manufacturers moved to the U.S. South, Mexico and other foreign countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, lower taxes and fewer regulations.

These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed) population of old, rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest in talking to them.

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.

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.

To combat a tightening talent market, companies must focus on improving productivity and operational efficiencies, rather than relying on cheap and plentiful labor, as some have in the past.

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.

It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor.

Thus, John Maynard Keynes, writing in a similar situation during the late 1930s, rightly emphasized the need for policy approaches that both promoted business confidence — the cheapest form of stimulus — and increased labor compensation.

Many assume that China's cost advantage in manufacturing comes from cheap labor.

In a world of cheap emerging market labor and ever - more - dexterous robots, inflation — especially the wage - driven variety — seems like yesterday's news.

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

In the Philippines, the country's outsourcing industry, which has been a strong sector for the country given its cheap labor, is facing unprecedented challenges from the rise of artificial intelligence, per Reuters.

The low costs of factory production labor and poor quality model allows stores to produce at a high volume, stay in front of trends and keep a demand on cheap, unsustainable clothing.

Since the land in question was fertile and productive, and since Mexican labor was cheap and governmental restrictions few, U.S. agribusiness was interested in moving in.

the community as they call it, no longer has a safe haven in South America or Mexico either — to streach their dollar on cheap labor and protection.

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.

They were the underside of a process in which, for five centuries, Western colonizing countries had stripped the colonized countries of their wealth, using cheap or slave labor, in order to build up the wealth which now underlies Western capitalism.

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.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

In pursuit of gain or reduced labor, persons are expected to move where production is cheapest or where wages are best.

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.

Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.

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.

For example, General Electric shut down a profitable and stable flat iron plant in California and opened iron plants in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil, where labor costs are many times cheaper.

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.

The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

The introduction of sugar cane into Brazil in the 1530s and the need for cheap labor was a cause of the trade in slaves, and an active passage of trade goods between Brazil and Africa sprang up.