But they're also turning to incentives to entice workers, raising costs for an industry in
which cheap labor is an essential ingredient to making cheap food.
Not exact matches
Many companies, chasing
cheaper labor still, moved to Asia, and AI,
which once made jeans for a host of brands including Gap, now works only for Levi Strauss.
Both candidates despise recent trade deals,
which they feel have proven that the U.S. can't compete with countries like China and Vietnam,
which have far
cheaper labor and less onerous environmental regulations.
Wells Fargo is under investigation by the
Labor Department,
which wants to see whether the bank has been pushing people with
cheaper corporate 401 (k) plans to transfer their holdings to Wells's more expensive individual retirement plans.
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.
Race to the bottom: A term for dog - eat - dog competition by
which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the
cheapest market, not by raising wages and
labor productivity.
In the Philippines, the country's outsourcing industry,
which has been a strong sector for the country given its
cheap labor, is facing unprecedented challenges from the rise of artificial intelligence, per Reuters.
Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs
which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of
labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their
labor rights, using
cheap labor such as casual and even child
labor, and also by further destruction of environment.
They were the underside of a process in
which, for five centuries, Western colonizing countries had stripped the colonized countries of their wealth, using
cheap or slave
labor, in order to build up the wealth
which now underlies Western capitalism.
Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation
which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable
cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.
Other goods will, over time, be withheld if they do not command a reasonable price, but the
cheaper labor is, the less it will be withheld, because people have to live, and to hedge against the falling wages and unemployment
which are always characteristic of a glutted
labor market.
Aid to poor countries can then be replaced by investment,
which is attracted by
cheap and docile
labor and low environmental standards.
They are
cheap and easy to prepare,
which is important in school systems with dwindling numbers of working kitchens, minimally trained
labor and only about $ 1 to spend per meal.
The following year, the company filed the current proposal,
which had the support of many business, energy and
labor groups because of its promise of new jobs,
cheaper gas and an additional source of fuel.
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.
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?
The Federation controls society with an iron fist of oppression by the government with «The Fall» connecting them; a giant elevator travels through the earth's core,
which transports
cheap labor from the colony to Britain.
By strategically substituting technology (
which is
cheap) for
labor (
which is expensive), moreover, schools can be far more cost - effective than they are now —
which is crucial in a future of tight budgets.
Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (
which is relatively
cheap) substituted for
labor (
which is relatively expensive).
The crankshaft of an engine is what converts the up and down motion of the pistons into a rotation
which can be transferred to the wheels, replacing a crankshaft is a big job as the entire engine must be removed from the car and stripped down to get to it,
which is very
labor intensive, it can often be
cheaper to buy a used engine
which is working and fitting that instead.
Many antibiotics that are
cheaper have been shown to be less effective,
which leads to more cattle re-treats and higher medication and
labor costs.
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.
Moreover, it's a win - win situation for the firm,
which gets the benefits of
cheap labor by lawyers who are grateful for an opportunity to have a job at all.
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.