Quotes About Labor

and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.

This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

For thousands of years, servants and slaves--or in lesser households, wives and daughters--were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

Christine Frederick's rational kitchen had been driven by efficiency: the fewest steps, the fewest utensils. The new ideal kitchens were far more opulent. These were dollhouses for grown women, packed with the maximum number of trinkets. The aim was not to save labor but to make the laborers forget they were working.

It is what happens whenever a machine replaces the labor of an artisan: the artisan's skills become devalued.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

The unemployment rate, after its encouraging drop early in the year, would stagnate near 9 percent into the fall

The growth, however, had not yet translated into a significant improvement in the job market.

The better way to look at the distributional effect of monetary policy is to compare changes in the income flowing from capital investments with the income from labor.

As it turns out, easier monetary policy tends to affect capital and labor incomes fairly similarly.

Markets are natural outgrowths of human nature, and natural rights. You own yourself, and you own your labor—and no one has the right to remove that labor from you for the good of the collective without just compensation.

Within a few years, the entire automobile workforce was unionized—a welcome change for politicians, who could now use those unions to raise funds and pound pavement on their own behalf. Ford was the last company to break, but in 1941, it did.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

aceite juntó su pringosa suavidad con la acritud astringente del vino, y batidos y juntados sellaron el pacto, cuando los dedos gordezuelos de Nazaria vendaban aquella frente merecedora del yugo para tirar de un arado.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

No gains without pains.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

There are no gains without pains.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Who is there that can be handsomely Supported in Affluence, Ease and Pleasure by another, that will chuse rather to earn his Bread by the Sweat of his own Brows?