Sentences with phrase «on human labor»

Bangladesh has the sort of dispersed but high density agrarian population as is capable of transforming ecosystems on human labor alone.

The company relies on human labor, and Airbnb Trips, he argues, is technology in the service of bringing people together, to experience new things in real life, not on screens.

Not exact matches

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

On the social front, companies are looking to uphold human rights in their supply chains, combating such horrors as human trafficking and child labor.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

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.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United StLabor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United Stlabor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

It goes on to note how if Tesla tries to automate 50 percent of the tasks in final assembly, it would only cut out about five hours of human labor.

Automation puts pressure on wages by providing a substitute for low - end human labor.

This epidemic has had a tremendous impact on human lives, the labor participation rate, businesses, and economic growth.

They would not work; for Calvin, the common human obligation is to labor in the garden of the Lord, in whatever manner is commensurate with one's God «given gifts and abilities on the one hand, and the needs of the situation on the other.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

For example, to concentrate on increasing the use of petroleum to replace human labor in agriculture, for the sake of increasing the productivity of labor, no longer seems a wise policy.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

It would be unnecessary to labor this point except that sin is often conceived too narrowly either as something to be settled with God only, or on the other hand as merely calling for reform in human relations.

However, standard economic development theory focused on increasing productivity, that is, the amount of goods produced per hour of human labor.

By employing fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increased.

This whole process has been brilliantly successful in reducing the need for human labor on the farm.

In her role, Cook will serve as a principal adviser on religious freedom to President Barack Obama and Clinton, as well as head the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department.

I'd say that a certain percentage of the work now done on the plantations has been mechanized as opposed to manual labor instead of using human workforce.

It isn't an attack on something around human beings — their «environs» — but an attack on the human beings themselves, one that involves them at the level of their livelihood, just like the early labor wars.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

We can continue, profitably, to displace traditional agriculture, based on solar energy and human and animal labor, with petroleum - based agriculture requiring far less labor.

The executive order on religious liberty he signed in early May contained a section on «conscience protections» to the mandate, and urged the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to amend the current regulations.

His writing on this subject has many affinities in substance, though not in tone, with the social encyclicals of John Paul II, who consistently insists on the importance of the noneconomic aspects of work, the dignity of unpaid labor, and the priority of human over economic values.

According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the human body.

They are based on information about how the human body works during labor.

She is a prolific author and public voice on civil liberties and human rights, particularly reproductive liberty, human trafficking for sex, labor, body parts, and marriage.

Rosa Aliberti Rosa has worked on diverse labor and employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; workplace investigations; severance, employment, and non-compete agreements; has drafted and responded to discrimination complaints before government agencies, including the U.S. EEOC and NYS Division of Human Rights; and, has assisted in federal and state court litigations.

This certificate is based on International Labor Organisation (ILO) conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on Child Labor.

There's no need to hate on your body, especially when it just grew another human and birthed that human into the world and is still in recovery from something as magnificent and awe - inspiring as labor and delivery.

Kroeger, Mary, Linda J Smith IMPACT OF BIRTHING PRACTICES ON BREASTFEEDING: Protecting the Mother and Baby Continuum Jones and Bartlett, 2004 This book examines the bond between human mothers and their newborns from the perspective of labor, birth and breastfeeding.

As these bubbles correct themselves, technology replaces more and more human labor, and the global workforce puts downward pressure on the labor markets, it becomes more and more obvious...

On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they labor and bear down with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.

The potential «eavesdropping» of bacteria on human hormones during pregnancy and labor led me to wonder how the use of synthetic hormones such as Pitocin, especially during stalled labor, might influence the microbiome and overall infant health.

From the Consortium on Safe Labor, which was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, through contract number HHSN267200603425C.

Note that this isn't some metric I'm making up out of whole cloth; I think back in 2007 or so the New York Times ran a series of articles on class differences in modern America, and they said that one of the best indicators of someone's economic class is whether they have goods and services that took a lot of labor to make, or whether their daily life doesn't command a lot of human resources.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly Committees on Social Services, Codes and Labor and the Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force hold a joint oversight hearing on services for victims of human trafficking, Legislative Office Building, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Albany.

A commodity is any good or service produced by human labor and offered as a product for general sale on the market.

On his website, Nicodemo lists five major issues that impact his district, including getting state funding for Yonkers schools, stricter gun laws, human and LGBT rights, education and fighting for unions and organized labor.

So, as a human society, where so much of the emphasis has been on preparing and improving the productivity of the workforce, and people's lives center around the labor they contribute to economies, what do you do when you don't NEED everyone to work?

Leadership announced committee hearings on public protection, mental hygiene, higher education, general government, environment and housing, transportation, economic development, human services / labor, and education all to take place throughout the day on Wednesday.

Health and Human services: U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Issue Regulation on «Grandfathered» Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act press release on June 14, 2010 included the following estimates:

AAAS CEO Alan Leshner testified before the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on stem cell research.

In a talk at AAAS on 10 October, Michael Posner, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, called for scientists to speak out against digital repression.

Michael H. Posner was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on September 23, 2009.

Earlier this year David Van Essen, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), strongly urged the US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, health and human services as well as on education to increase NIH funding by 6.7 percent per year for each of the next three fiscal years, stating that this is needed «to ensure that our best and brightest young people will enter the field and continue to make neuroscience research advances.»

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, or DRL, as it is called, manages a budget of about half a billion dollars per year spread across 350 human rights - related programs spanning the globe, including many that focus on forensics or internet freHuman Rights and Labor, or DRL, as it is called, manages a budget of about half a billion dollars per year spread across 350 human rights - related programs spanning the globe, including many that focus on forensics or internet frehuman rights - related programs spanning the globe, including many that focus on forensics or internet freedom.