Sentences with phrase «when cheap labor»

Long gone are the days when cheap labor was the most important input for manufacturers.

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As did other Rust Belt states, however, it suffered a devastating decline beginning in the 1970s, when manufacturers moved to the U.S. South, Mexico and other foreign countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, lower taxes and fewer regulations.

The chained CPI has been developed and refined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to recognize that when the prices of similar goods change, consumers often switch to the cheaper option.

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.

When demand for their diapers exceeds their own time and energy, each business owner has the choice to expand locally, or work with factories in far - away countries where labor is cheaper.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

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.

They work long hours for tiny stipends, serve as cheap labor for their advisers, and sometimes can't even tell you — within a standard deviation of years — when they anticipate graduating.

Say all you want about the lower cost of design and online promo, but when you factor in the labor hours — yours — its not as cheap as you think.

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis.

It shows the cruelty of the false hopes raised by those masters pretending to «humane» treatment, through promises of manumission extended as a calculated tool to secure loyalty when an owner took the risk of educating a slave for office work, for example; or the deceitful «kindness» used to secure compliance of seemingly freed slaves, in perpetuating programs of sterilization, medical experimentation, and of course cheap labor.

With the inexpensive workforce that came after the Civil War when both soldiers and former slaves were in need of work, the furniture industry really started to bloom in the late 19th Century and many investors were interested in High Point because of its location, cheap labor, and cheap and efficient method of transportation.

Also, I have sometimes wondered if stock returns will fall when the whole world is employed, and there is no more cheap labor to be had.

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With the inexpensive workforce that came after the Civil War when both soldiers and former slaves were in need of work, the furniture industry really started to bloom in the late 19th Century and many investors were interested in High Point because of its location, cheap labor, and cheap and efficient method of transportation.

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.