Sentences with phrase «on cheap labor»

China enjoyed more than a decade of double - digit economic growth based on cheap labor and massive exports, and its massive population of industrious people, directed by its powerful central government, has created a booming middle class eager to achieve the prosperity of developed nations.

Some research leaders have suggested that labs should rely more on staff scientists and less on the cheap labor of graduate students and postdocs.

That, as numerous experts and reports have argued, is the «pyramid» system of depending on the cheap labor of temporary trainees financed by professors» grants to do the work of funded research.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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 track.

Much organized opposition to NAFTA centered on the fear that the abolishment of trade barriers would spur U.S. firms to pack up and move to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor.

The value of that box was more than $ 100, and given the low margins on food products, the labor involved with individually wrapping ingredients and the costly Styrofoam packaging with cool packs, this clearly was not a cheap giveaway.

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.

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.

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.

Places with cheap labor can not industrialize on their own, and they can always throw warm bodies at the problem as it usually cheaper to hire more workers than rethink processes, design machinery and roll out new systems.

Profit margins are eroding too as the pushback against globalization prompts multinational firms to cut back on their use of cheap overseas labor.

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.

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 gadgeOn 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 gadgeon the other side of town and fighting the other sheeple for latest Chinese sweat labor made cheap plastic gadget.

Increasing competition and pressure on transnational companies to increase profits leads to a relentless search for cheap labor markets.

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.

We already knew the pink slime option was cheaper — that's the whole point of pink slime — but now there might be an even greater cost differential for schools if they need to expend their own funds on labor to convert bulk beef to patties.

He wasn't like Ronald Reagan, who took on Communism; Nixon didn't try to CHANGE China, he saw it as a source of CHEAP LABOR and a market for his big business pals.

For ultimately proving themselves not enamored of the war in Iraq, for coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery star.

On the most productive part of the world, where the labor is cheap, the workers sooner or later will demand better life for their hard work, like it happened in Japan (50s - 60s vs today).

Williams said the federal government should crack down on companies that ship their operations overseas in search of cheaper 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 academic research enterprise has long functioned as a pyramid scheme based on cheap workers, notes labor market economist Paula Stephan in her magisterial book, How Economics Shapes Science.

NIH backing for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.

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?

Postdocs hired at U.S. universities have become, for some time now, a new kind of cheap labor... who are most of the time only allowed to do those experiments that please their bosses, and, on the other hand, can not many times contribute to the creative scientific process.

«Postdocs hired at U.S. universities have become, for some time now, a new kind of cheap labor... who are most of the time only allowed to do those experiments that please their bosses, and, on the other hand, can not many times contribute to the creative scientific process,» he says.

Universities» dependence on cheap graduate student labor inherently conflicts with focusing on providing what students need to build their own sustainable futures.

The response of government, industry, or academic institutions to this crisis has been to lobby to increase the quota for foreign scientists using J - 1, O, and H - 1B work visas as incentives on the basis that cheaper labor is?

«The True Cost» (2015): This deep dive into the fashion industry not only exposes the deadly cost of cheap clothing, it shows just how little executives at some of the most successful companies capitalizing on foreign labor care about it.

The previous poster have great examples of rotors in need of replacement but I worked as a mechanic for years and rotors have become so cheap for most vehicles the easiest thing to do is replace them as paying someone to resurface often costs more on labor than buying new rotors.

The down fall to the blazer is it is old so many more things can go wrong with it but on the brighter side it is old so parts are cheaper and labor is a lot less or you are able to work on it yourself.

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

It's here they'll find not only stockpiled Mudokon eggs on sale to factory owners as cheap labor, but also the last can of Gabbiar, the disgusting delicacy that is raw Gabbit eggs.

In his Artists Space show, «91020000,» Mr. Rowland deals with a not - too - visible economy that is especially dependent on cheap inmate labor.

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 commoditOn 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 commoditon 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.

A pair of new shows explore the nature and history of surveillance in the United States as well as questions of cheap labor on Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk.

The thing is that at some level, the success of Brazil's ethanol program depends on the productivity of its sugar plantations and on the availability of cheap (almost slave) labor.

As I noted in my post on volunteerism as the cheap oil of permaculture, many demonstration projects seem to be heavily reliant on free labor and free money.

At the same time, if a firm does take on a student, again, the business model becomes, «what is the return on investment» — such that students are often utilized as cheap labor as opposed to being tutored in a professional manner befitting our professional obligation which is assuring the public interest and our own collective reputation, and not always about billing for their time.

The European region holds the maximum share in photonic sensors market as of 2011; but APAC region is expected to contribute the major share in future on account of low manufacturing cost, cheap labor, and technological competence.

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.

Quantification is especially effective if you can prove how much money you stayed under budget through strong negotiation skills, intelligent use of resources, finding cheaper materials to use, or saving costs on unnecessary labor.

What if you had really cheap or free labor, reduced or nonexistent property taxes, a ready fund of cash so that you weren't paying a lot in mortgage payments, and the ability to have people live in houses that were completed but not sold on a short - term basis who were willing to vacate on a moment's notice?

The home builders even got a Republican governor to reverse his position on this issue so the industry could continue hiring cheap, illegal labor.