Sentences with phrase «where cheap labor»

But in an industry where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.

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«Build your factory in Mexico or someplace else where labor is cheaper» became the thinking, he says.

Baxter won't object to working in less - populous locations, where it's cheap to build but hard to find labor.

Even countries like China, where labor is cheap, are killing jobs because it is cheaper to manufacture products with robotics and artificial intelligence.»

While the deal allowed US manufacturers to lower costs and compete with Asian factories, it also led companies to move thousands of factory jobs to Mexico, where labor is cheaper.

Many factories that were once employing U.S. workers are now located across the Rio Grande where labor is cheaper and more docile.

It seems likely that for several generations, indeed, for the foreseeable future, the global economy will continue the current «race to the bottom,» moving production to those places where labor is cheapest and most docile.

The marijuana was then trafficked to the U.S., where it was purchased and consumed by people who may not have been aware (or even cared) that their cheap high was the result of a system involving slave labor.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

In pursuit of gain or reduced labor, persons are expected to move where production is cheapest or where wages are best.

For example, General Electric shut down a profitable and stable flat iron plant in California and opened iron plants in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil, where labor costs are many times cheaper.

The result for many multinationals is the decision to move increasing numbers of their plants overseas or to the largely nonunion South, where much cheaper labor assures greater profitability.

Where labor is cheap, the market is flooded with it, assuring that it will remain cheap.

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.

Nearly all pins are handmade in Taiwan, where labor is cheap and craftsmen plentiful.

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.

As an alternative to overpacking landfills or recycling domestically, some industrialized countries have found it more convenient and cheaper to export e-waste to developing countries, such as China and India, where labor costs are low, and occupational and environmental laws are lax or not well implemented.

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).

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 an era where the prices for labor and resources are cheap, should it be surprising that profit margins are high?

Contrast the U.S. situation with that of India and other emerging markets where the labor force is young, deep and relatively cheap.

Clever move, and emblematic of the shift happening in our world where resource - and cheap labor - driven nations grow rapidly, and build up trade surpluses against the developed world.

This is astronomically more likely to occur in developed countries with high labor costs where it is cheaper to fork over your room and board than to pay a hired laborer the minimum wage.

Companies will always go where the labor is cheapest and / or where taxes are lowest.

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.

Perhaps people all over the world could even limit themselves to only having one child per couple - I know it is crazy - where will we get cheap, desperate labor?

Whereas much of China's early industrial development took place along the coast, factories more recently have been locating where labor is cheaper and environmental oversight is less strict, pushing the so - called «cancer belt» inland.

Don't think these greedy bastards will head for south of the border where they have cheap labor and no regulations (read bribes) as soon as the government subsidies end here?

Outsourcing production overseas, where labor is by and large cheaper, not only contributes to our country's unemployment rate and shrinking garment industry, but also helps keep overseas sweatshops and factories with unfair working conditions in business.

It seems unfair that the United States, as other countries in the World, should have to compete with others elsewhere where very cheap labor is their primary advantage.

Hollywood studios are also seeking cheaper labor, which forces VFX companies to open satellite offices in places like Canada, where the US dollar is worth more, and locations that offer significant tax breaks.

• Workers» rights «flouted» at Apple's iPhone factory in China where new, cheaper devices are being produced illegally, according to China Labor Watch

In one writer's view, the city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African - American labor...