Sentences with phrase «cheap labor make»

Can cheap labor make you lazy?

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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.

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.

Uber uses technology to displace low - skilled workers who may have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.

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.

So if you're talking about Japan for them the deep the base the currency and make it the currency cheaper is a good thing because that creates this inflow of international investment into the country because they're able to get labor cheaper they're able to get goods cheaper because the currency is cheap.

Slowing the stream of cheap labor from Mexico and other Latin American countries, coupled with raising new tariffs at the border, should have the effect of making consumer goods and services more expensive.

But the truly scary thing many consumers may not be aware of is that many of those cheap chocolates may have actually been made using child 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.

Labor was cheap and plentiful, making high wages impossible and leading to a terrible exploitation of the men, women, and children.

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.

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.

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.

When I first noticed these organic baby clothes were made in India, I assumed it was for cheap labor, but then I read that CEO Jyoti Singh is a beautiful Indian mom.

I could make a laundry list of what I would like the second time around with a singleton rather than twins (breastfeeding, not premature, no bed rest, no pre-term labor scares, regular number of doctor's appts, no develo [pmental delays, cheaper, EVERYTHING), but my problem with having my victory baby is there is no way I want a newborn again while also caring for my twins (currently 2.5).

And because they can make their product so very cheap with substandard materials and shoddy labor conditions, it's easy for them to offer merchandise that looks the same at first glance at a fraction of the cost.

Even if it's nice and cheap and I can afford it, because it's made in some country that has no environmental or labor regulations.

And honestly, if they can't afford a hospital birth, chances are they can't afford a homebirth midwife — who are generally not cheap, who will not generally make payment arrangements (or rather, will not make the same type hospitals make, payable after the fact and in small monthly increments for years; midwife payment arrangements tend to be along the lines of «Half the fee at the first appointment, and the other half a month or two later»), and who will not deliver a baby without having been paid in full prior to onset of labor (I don't have a statistic, but it seems most midwives have this particular payment policy, and payment is non-refundable).

In essence, China has been loaning Chinese solar module manufacturers in that country money at low - interest rates for both production and installation, even when installation takes place in other countries such as Germany, which makes Chinese products unbeatably cheap when paired with Chinese advantages in labor and logistics costs.

Manufacturers that make traditional crystalline silicon solar panels are boosting efficiencies and dropping prices thanks to equipment improvements plus cheap Chinese labor and materials.

That said, the cheapest manufactured goods often come from sweatshops with terrible labor conditions, so I try to weigh that against price and buy fewer but better - made things.

There are just over a million people who make Nikes in 591 factories worldwide, according to the company, with production tilted heavily toward the cheap labor markets in Asia.

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.

The 82 - minute Poultry in Motion is an honest and revealing warts - and - all portrait of the tensions and stumbles in making an ultra-low budget exploitation film with cheap labor and unpaid extras and support staff.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Impoverished Chinese supplied cheap labor, many barely making enough to live on.

And while it is possible to pay for cheap labor to farm for you, it is much easier to make bot farms.

The combination of cheap electricity, abundant coal, technical expertise and readily available labor has made China the cryptocurrency mining capital of the world, something that even an ongoing government crackdown seems unable to change.

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.

The fact is home builders during the boom made fat profits due to utilizing cheap, illegal labor.

Cheap labor costs make Orlando one of the least expensive markets for prepping a house to sell, although Florida taxes on sales are almost double the national average.