Word: laboral
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...Today's Japan is like a family in which the parents don't feed and educate their children enough, but still ask the kids to behave and to support them when they grow old. The business world is desperately pursuing profit by sacrificing its young workforce, through part-time labor at low wages. The government asks the younger generation to be more patriotic, even when they cannot have confidence in their future. How can we call Japan a beautiful country? M. Otani Kagawa, Japan...
...hastily and on the cheap to impress their prospective client--a few contractors up the chain--the U.S. Army. Time has obtained the first eyewitness testimony given under oath that describes the events leading up to that convoy. In a 194-page sworn deposition filed with the Department of Labor in a separate legal proceeding, Christopher Berman, who worked and roomed with Helvenston in weeks leading up to his death, describes a company's managers overwhelmed by logistics and plagued by volatile tempers as they rushed to take over the new contract...
...Crew as a store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...defies simple classification. “I think that being a serious scholar and being an artist are not opposed,” she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against the division of labor, especially in Barthes’s definition—that what we need to do as intellectuals is unlearn. Learning something new and loving the process is important for me so I don’t become in essence, framed...
...immigration issues. The 89,000 H-2B workers entering the U.S. annually are bound to their employer and have no right to legal counsel. Yet there is no government agency that can force the companies to abide by their contracts, he explains. "It's today's version of bonded labor...