Sentence examples for labor poor from inspiring English sources

With arbitrary detentions, forced labor, poor living conditions and an absence of the protections supposedly granted to criminal detainees, it violates official Chinese and international legal standards, the report says.

Executives and experts point to several factors hampering the industry: high fixed costs, especially with labor; poor management decisions; a balance sheet that relies on high-spending business travelers, and therefore a healthy economy, for profits; and a glut of seats, possibly because there are too many companies.

The retail apparel industry has received immense media attention with regard to issues of fair treatment of workers, use of sweatshop labor, poor working conditions and ethical decisions about buying or sourcing raw materials and production (Laudal 2010).

Of course, the widespread practice of employing undocumented immigrants from Central and South America has its own consequences, such as child labor, poor working conditions, and inescapable poverty for new immigrants.

The dominant patriarchal ideology has brought to women, especially those with low education, higher fertility, hard physical labor, poor and delayed access to health services, and increased violence at home.

Though the novel revolves — as much as anything stuffed with dozens upon dozens of often numbing digressions can revolve — around the failed workers' revolt of 1832, Hugo's concern was the lot of the laboring poor in 1862.

Like his predecessor John XXIII, John Paul II urged wealthy Catholics to take account of the laboring poor, both in their home countries and around the world.

The reasons for labor's poor showing are not hard to spot.

During the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, Mr. Hu, like most educated youths, was sent to labor in poor areas.

The current tax-and-transfer system imposes a tax on work — the payroll tax — that falls heavily on low-wage labor, and poor Americans face steep marginal tax rates because of how their benefits phase out as their wages increase.

We explain it to ourselves as a product of forces beyond our control: technology, which automated many formerly good jobs, or globalization, which put American workers in direct competition with cheaper labor in poor countries around the world.