The phrase "abusive labor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe work conditions that are exploitative or harmful to workers.
Example: "The report highlighted the issue of abusive labor practices in the garment industry, calling for immediate reforms."
Alternatives: "exploitative labor" or "oppressive labor".
Such success is increasingly touted by activists eager to find ways to stop things like abusive labor and free-trade practices and the cutting of old-growth forests.
Experience shows that free trade rewards abusive labor practices, child exploitation, even slavery, while penalizing fair wages, health plans and unions.
Some kin groups were also separated by abusive labor demands, ranging from public works to rubber gathering to debt servitude, all under the control of government officials or local patrons.
Misguided decisions like these are made because the costs of negative externalities (external consequences of the company's activities), such as pollution or abusive labor practices, are often borne by society, to the benefit of shareholders.
But laws can be changed to allow more work opportunities for children while still providing protections to prevent abusive labor practices and to ensure that children can be children.
The bill is modeled on similar laws adopted by more than two dozen municipalities and is intended to discourage the abusive labor practices often found in the garment industry in New York City, around the nation and overseas.
The fighting has also shut down a project to eradicate what international aid workers consider the farmers' abusive child labor practices.
Together, he said, they had developed a plan "to better identify and address instances of abusive child labor in cocoa growing".
Nonetheless, the industry has signed onto a project put together by the International Labor Organization, a United Nations specialized agency, aimed at allowing chocolate makers to certify by 2005 that their products are free of abusive child labor.
Despite claims to the contrary, the TPP would've emboldened China, allowing Beijing to benefit from the agreement without changing the abusive currency, labor and subsidy practices that have disadvantaged family farmers, small businesses and working people alike.
Now, those of us who believe passionately in the power of open trade -- we have to ensure that it lifts both our living standards and our values, never tolerating abusive child labor or a race to the bottom in the environment and worker protection.
