Sentences with phrase «for labor exploitation»

Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Poland.

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There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.
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.
Hence labor unions, which can confront owners with effective power, are an essential ingredient in a healthy capitalist society, for power must be shared in order to prevent exploitation.
In Cuomo's proposal, state labor commissioner Roberta Reardon said it's hard for employers to keep track of their workers» tips and difficulties with recordkeeping open the door for wage theft and exploitation.
In his review of Big Science, Alex Wellerstein offers readers a glimpse into the life and career of the controversial physicist — from his seemingly remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate student labor to his zealous support for the atomic bomb.
Nikki Luna's Tiempos Muertos (2013) is an installation of a thousand diamonds cast from sugar that details the exploitation of cheap labor, while Adrian Ho's Fruits of Life (2013) registers its mournful concern for the Bornean forests that have fallen prey to palm - oil corporations.
In 2000, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), criminalizing trafficking for forced prostitution, forced labor, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
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