The phrase "human commodity" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to treating humans as objects or goods that can be bought, sold or traded. Example: The company views their employees not as individuals, but as human commodities to be used for their own gain.
Not the human comedy, but the human commodity.
How much you see this as a problem, and how much you see it as an opportunity, will have some bearing on whether you're viewed as "famous", or as that more collusive, confected and shallow human commodity, "a celebrity".
Our emotions are a powerful, human commodity.
And the ugliness of an enterprising high-end street agent and big-ticket coaches doing some off-books trading in the human commodity of basketball players is on display here as well.
But like many other refugees seeking to pass through Libya, Saron and her fellow captives became human commodities, pawns in a game of power and wealth played by Libyan militias.
Soon a perversely thriving human trafficking operation developed in Mexico by mafia cartels to assist men, women, and children -- as well as athletes -- to escape Cuba as human commodities in a coldblooded vulture black market.
In this clip from an episode of "Oprah's Lifeclass," motivational speaker Tony Robbins says that self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities -- and that the one tool that can help you achieve self-awareness is... love.
They challenge the Big Lie of our generation: The American people are not doomed to be treated like human commodities, with their families and futures bought and sold like pieces of silver and nuggets of gold.
Their innovation is to spearhead variations of platforms for the exchange and ownership of all sorts of data, setting off a novel value chain that imperils the long-stable vocabulary of political economy and its focus on human labour, commodity or utility based value systems6.
Many of these employers are increasingly interested in hiring recent science Ph.D.s--a human resources commodity that apparently has come to their attention only recently.
These 5 areas align closely with our findings, which suggest the need to assess financial and human resources, commodity and supply chain management capacity, quality standards including the existence of guidelines for health workers, the use of data for decision making and program management, laws and policies, and engagement with the private sector and civil society.
