Sentences with phrase «whose labor practices»

Many of the components used in these devices are also made by Foxconn, the world's largest manufacturer of electronics, whose labor practices have been criticized.

Dominated by fast fashion conglomerates such as H&M and Zara, producing massive amounts of cheap clothes at a rapid pace, contemporary fashion has become an industry whose labor practices and environmental impact are unethical and unsustainable.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

One of my favorite things about the book — and since it's from Matt, whose integrity is razor sharp, I wasn» r particularly surprised — was the section on labor practices and the importance of buying fair trade.

By attacking public workers, they can demonize «big labor» and «big government» at the same time, while deflecting attention from the more logical target of Middle America's rage: the irresponsible Wall Street traders, whose risky, high - profit business practices brought down the economy, and the lax regulators who let them get away with it.

The councilwoman, whose district includes East Harlem and the southern tip of the Bronx, also raised concerns about Fresh Direct's labor practices and whether the development would limit public access to the South Bronx waterfront.

Brett Wallace is a conceptual artist and entrepreneur whose art practice involves an exploration of the labor model and territories within accelerated capitalism through video, narrative storytelling, and installation.

Anne Ellegood, the Hammer Museum curator whose labor of love was the Art + Practice show «Rag Man» has wondered the same — and is super happy to be in something of a position to help correct / amend the art historical record.

With this variation, McLuhan meant to suggest that with the clocking of labor, a practice whose origins lie with the Industrial Revolution, time becomes the meta - commodity, that which is ultimately and essentially being traded in money.

After practicing with an Indianapolis, Indiana law firm whose work focused on labor and employment issues, Mr. Johns moved his practice home to Montana in 1979.