41.   Picking up on his cue, two liberal Democratic senators have proposed tax breaks for corporations that treat their workers well.

42.   Politicians, academics and ordinary people will continue to debate the merits and wisdom of an economy in which workers are often treated like disposable commodities.

43.   Relative to their income, low-wage workers are treated far more generously under Social Security than their high-wage counterparts.

44.   Riscorp uses a network of medical service providers to treat injured workers covered by its policies.

45.   ReadiCare centers in California and Washington specialize in treating workers injured on the job.

46.   Senior managers cut the budget, overlooked repair problems and often treated workers who raised safety issues as troublemakers, the report found.

47.   Some companies actually mean it and treat their workers that way.

48.   Some studies of longer-term stock patterns, though, show that it could pay to invest in companies that treat their workers well.

49.   Sounding a populist theme, Cardinal Law criticized American corporations for treating workers as expendable commodities in the name of boosting profits for stockholders.

50.   Still, labor leaders and legislators here and elsewhere are beginning to raise serious concerns about the way these workers are treated.