Sentence examples for oppressive labor from inspiring English sources

The show, on view through Feb. 25, reduces much of the art within its borders to illustration, often reprimanding it for ignoring oppressive labor practices or the destruction of the natural environment.

All of us who have been involved in humanitarian relief have heard countless stories of refugee women who work 15 to 16 hours a day for little or no pay, often abused as domestic workers or trapped in other oppressive labor situations.

On the other hand, it contributes to an economic system that skirts ethical lines via oppressive labor practices abroad, sourcing of conflict minerals that may or may not include child slavery, and planned obsolescence that like clockwork makes the phone useless after a couple of years.

On this week's podcast, we discuss how and why FIFA officials were arrested on an array of corruption charges, how crowded the 2016 GOP presidential field is getting, and how the House is hoping to keep countries with oppressive labor and human trafficking records party to the president's already controversial fast-track trade bill.

"If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor," Chang writes, "hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work".

It also established a national minimum wage and outlawed oppressive child labor.

This law banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and the maximum workweek at 44 hours.

She was also the prime mover within the Cabinet for the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, which created a federal minimum wage, established a 40-hour work week, guaranteed time-and-a-half for overtime in certain jobs and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".

In 2013, union slayings did decline somewhat while the number of strikes increased--potentially suggesting a less oppressive climate for labor in the future.

We and other journalists wrote about the problems of child labor and oppressive conditions in both China and South Korea.

What I saw as oppressive and inefficient child labor, many readers saw as a chance for a young person to do something she enjoys and takes pride in, to develop a respect for work and help with family finances, as they had themselves.