Sentences with phrase «where forced labour»

Not exact matches

It turns out that this may be one of those rare cases where Canadian data are richer than American data: the Labour Force Survey has been asking about job tenure since 1976, and we can focus on more tightly - defined age groups.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

Back then, it concentrated on the plight of Christians in Eastern Europe - behind what was called the Iron Curtain, where a Soviet - dominated system, backed by torture and imprisonment in the Gulag forced - labour camps, imposed an official atheism.

Exclusion of Asians from immigration to the United States seems just to those who fear competition in the labour force, but it looks otherwise to those who need jobs and do not find them where they are.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

This disruption works best when it is immediate and continuous, and would ideally include forcing the exploitative labour hire companies and complicit farmers either into reform and transparency or out of business, and prosecuting them where guilty.

«Their overall mission», in Perry Anderson's summation, «was to change the relation of forces between capital and labour, where necessary — principally in Britain and America — after tough class struggles to crush resistance to a new order.

Margaret begins an investigation that takes her to Australia, where she meets other adults who, as children, were taken from care to a life of institutions and forced labour on the other side of the world.

The state of being dominated is so objectionable because on the one hand the master can use their power to extract benefits from the dominated (through their labour, for example), and because it forces the dominated into a position where they have to flatter and ingratiate themselves with their master in order to avoid their wrath.

On top of this, these are all seats where Labour used to have an incumbency advantage (which will have helped them at the 2010 election), but where they are now forced to cope without these resources.

The government wants to create a US - style labour market, where because virtually no welfare safety net exists, unemployment bears more directly on the working class, forcing people like lone parents to work for extremely low wages and without employment protection.

These longer term trends include: the ongoing decline in the Tory share of the vote; the building up of «third forces» in light of this Tory decline (mainly the Liberal Democrats but also the SNP in Scotland); and the inability of Labour to secure the levels of support achieved in the 1945 — 1966 period where it regularly won with levels of support of 43 — 50 %.

''... he's going to decide, you know, how he defines himself and what his position is, you know I can say and I have said where I think Labour — that Labour would win as a modern progressive force fighting from the centre.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up the fight against trafficking in human beings and forced labour; believes that the fight against forced labour should focus on the places where cheap forced labour is exploited; calls therefore on Member States to strengthen their labour inspections and to facilitate those organisations that can help in detecting forced labour such as trade unions;

Speaking on the eve of Labour's Autumn conference the East Renfrewshire MP, heralded by many in Labour as one of Ed Miliband's most reliable sentinels, said: «This Government has not prioritised armed forces education, particularly in the army where 50 per cent of recruits have a reading age 7 — 11.»

In a dramatic night, Ukip also forced a recount in Heywood and Middleton, where Labour's Liz McInnes narrowly defeated Ukip's John Bickley by just 617 votes on a turn - out of 36 %.

But she added that Labour would not «force it» by making promises to collaborate on areas where it did not agree with the Lib Dems.

First, we found that locally Ukip really is gunning for Labour: targeting working - class areas where Labour is locally dominant in the hope of cementing support among blue - collar voters, and forcing Miliband to promise an EU referendum.

Rules state the Lewisham East MP will be forced to give up the seat before taking up the new job - prompting a summer by - election in a constituency where Labour enjoys a 21,000 majority.

«The Conservatives are on the march in Wales where Labour are «in deep trouble» Main Tories force another Brown u-turn... on the TA»

Adrienne Long, from the Office of Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labour Affairs at the U.S Department of Labour was at the Agency's headquarters recently where she met with the DG, Dame Julie Okah - Donli, as part of her visit to Abuja.