Sentences with phrase «of labor exploitation»

However, in March of this year, one victim of labor exploitation secured restitution, thanks to the help of pro bono counsel from Clayton Utz.

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Behind the shiny veneer of Uber's venture capital — backed technological innovation lies a time - tested business model: labor exploitation.
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.
One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.
The U.N. agencies warn that these children face a number of threats including exploitation, trafficking, early marriage and illegal child labor.
Domestic workers face a wide range of serious abuses and labor exploitation, including excessive working hours without rest, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking.
And his hope is in labor unions that are devoted to the real politics of putting an end to capitalist exploitation.
And yet, a just God will execute judgment on a society built on the exploitation of the labor of the poor, and he calls us now to join him in today's revolutionary task.
Savar, Bangladesh (CNN)- Pope Francis, speaking at a Mass on Wednesday, made reference to the Bangladesh building collapse that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor
We need to see the end of human slavery, whether in the form of race tyranny, exploitation, forced labor or imperialism.
On Wednesday, the Pope Francis made reference to a building collapse in Bangladesh that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor
But it should be noted that the axiomatic base of such analysis is a bit of flat - earth superstition explicitly rejected by Pius XI» the Marxian labor theory of value and its purportedly «scientific» corollaries, the theory of surplus value and worker exploitation.
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.
Global poverty, sex trafficking, slavery, unfair wages, child labor, environmental exploitation — I'm proud to see and support Christians confronting these injustices and more, as an expression of our faith and calling.
It led to exploitation of labor and it has never been readapted to this age of increasing leisure (see Davis & Gosling 1985).
History, to be sure, is not only the progress of humanity but also the drama of class war, brought about by the division of labor, private property, and exploitation.
The callous exploitation of Indian and African labor was a challenge.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.»
Not all women in prostitution are «sex slaves,» and the majority of migrant men, women and children to suffer labor exploitation.
In the young Marx there was a double vision of the nature of alienation,... Marxist thought developed along one narrow road of economic conceptions of property and exploitation, while the other road, which might have led to new, humanistic concepts of work and labor, was left unexplored.2
Bartolome de Las Casas and Pedro Claver were outstanding among thousands who were moved by their Christian faith to protest against the exploitation of non-Europeans and to labor heroically on behalf of these victims of their fellow Europeans.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leader in the anti-apartheid divestment movement to end US corporate investment in the racist system of oppression and labor exploitation in South Africa.
Labor republicans, in other words, began from the concrete fact of actual injustice — of social domination and exploitation — and looked to self - education, rather than the corrupt state, as a way of inculcating virtues.
The argument goes something like this: There is a certain amount of safety in what is known, even if what is known is a combination of political repression, nepotism, economic depression, chronic unemployment and underemployment, infrastructural disrepair, labor exploitation and corruption.
«I have directed the Department of Labor to ensure that no workers are more susceptible to exploitation because they rely on tips to survive.
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 the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leader in the anti-apartheid divestment movement to end US corporate investment in the system of racist labor exploitation in South Africa.
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.
Was Miller troubled by specific transgressions of particular employers or by the deep and pervasive dysfunctional nature of the «pyramid» system of academic research, which depends on the systematic exploitation of cheap graduate student and postdoc labor?
«Labor trafficking and other forms of gross exploitation are happening in the U.S. and always to those who have the least,» the researchers concluded.
Ronsel can no longer abide the day - in, day - out oppression of life in the Deep South — the constant exploitation of his family's labor, both physical and emotional.
Similarly, in Orange, the pioneering days of orange cultivation (represented by a montage of early photographs) give way to an agribusiness exploitation of Arab labor.
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.
The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) was a labor of love project from exploitation legend Larry Cohen, an independent director (and writer and producer) if there ever was one, and it was the closest that he ever got to an all - star casOf J. Edgar Hoover (1977) was a labor of love project from exploitation legend Larry Cohen, an independent director (and writer and producer) if there ever was one, and it was the closest that he ever got to an all - star casof love project from exploitation legend Larry Cohen, an independent director (and writer and producer) if there ever was one, and it was the closest that he ever got to an all - star cast.
Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.
If Brewer seems to be laboring under the delusion that he's transforming Fifties drive - in exploitation material into a Lynchian art movie, Hounddog's director Deborah Kempmeier imagines she's made a feminist anti-abuse tract, and even brought a rape counselor to one of her screenings to prove it.
It reveals how the abstract logic of the exploitation of the division of labor informs all the practices of culture and society.
Critique, in other words, enables us to explain how social differences — gender, race, sexuality, and class — have been systematically produced and continue to operate within regimes of exploitation — namely within the international division of labor in global capitalism, so that we can fight to change them.
A survey conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) showed that in countries such as Cambodia, Liberia, Malawi and Peru, more than 80 % of youth are working in the informal economy, often leading to underemployment or exploitation.
However, the same report noted that children in Thailand continue to engage in child labor in agriculture and «in the worst forms of child labor in commercial sexual exploitation
On the one hand we have decoded human DNA, bringing within reach the possibility to prolong life indefinitely; on the other hand we have seen the transformation of industrial countries into leisure societies and the simultaneous exploitation of the Third World as a depot of cheap labor and manpower, where time is still a negotiable commodity.
Darren Almond's work examines recurring themes of time, memory, human labor and exploitation.
She explains that fast fashion is an incredibly lucrative industry with companies typically outsourcing production to factories in countries that have lenient labor laws, leading to exploitation of workers and human rights abuses.
This includes a pop - up book by Kara Walker and a sculpture by Melvin Edwards that both respond to America's exploitation of enslaved labor.
Her practice addresses geopolitical concerns of exploitation, as it relates to natural resource control and the invisible labor that supplies global trade.
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.
She witnessed and documented some of the 20th century's most notable moments, including the liberation of German concentration camps by General Patton in 1945, the release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison in 1946, and the effects of South African labor exploitation in the 1950s.
Reflecting on the problem of artistic labor and exploitation, John Hogan looks back at the funny and caustic 1960s - era cartoons of Theodore L. Shaw.
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