Quotes About Labor

being only overcome by his dislike of all kinds of recognised labour—a temperamental defect which he shared with a large proportion of revolutionary reformers of a given social state.

as the "good" middle-class jobs—requiring a moderate level of skills, like autoworkers' jobs—seemed to be disappearing relative to those at the bottom, requiring few skills, and those at the top, requiring greater skill levels. Economists refer to this as the "polarization" of the labor force.

I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do.

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.

Labor was the right word for it. You surely do labor. Like pushing a wagon loaded with cement blocks uphill, three wheels stuck. Grunting, sweating, straining like a sow to give birth as it's called.

Whatever we gain by the works of our own flesh, we will have to maintain the same way we gained it.

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is for one to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun all the days which God gives him—for this is his [allotted] part. Ecclesiastes 5:18

We all have urgent matters pending, one of the members growled. What the hell is Nick's problem that he can't be here? He said it's a labor relations problem. That's no excuse! another member exploded. We all have labor relations problems. I reminded Nick of that, the chairman replied. What did he say? He said that nobody has a labor relations problem like his.

The sun and the endless hours of swinging a machete in the fields had taken him from child to old man with no stage in between.

I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas...

a new suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man.

down their road, each way, wid a flag," directed O'Brien to Casey, "and thin tear up their track. Cut off the rails six inches inside the highway line. Don't ye get off the road on to the company's ground, av ye value yer life. Get the thrack out av the way, an' thin start the plows an' scrapers. Dump the dirt in a long pile in the middle av the sthreet; don't cover up anny av the Dubskys or Polowskys, but kape the dirt movin'.

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've had a product first. It's immoral not to get in and work and get your hands dirty.

The wonder of the Exodus narrative is that the role of pharaoh continues to be reperformed in many times and many places. "Pharaoh" reappears in the course of history in the guise of coercive economic production. In every new performance, the character of Pharaoh makes claims to be absolute to perpetuity; the character is regularly propelled by fearful greed; the character imposes stringent economic demands on a vulnerable labor force.

Until that moment of utterance, every objective analysis of economic production in Egypt would have concluded that the pain of the peasants is a necessary, normal, even natural arrangement of labor—the cost of doing business.

The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.

The switch from sales ladies behind each counter in five-and-dime stores to checkout lines, from waiter-served to self-service and fast-food restaurants, from full-service to self-service gasoline stations are among the responses to higher labor costs. So, too, are the absence of movie theater ushers and the wide use by restaurants of plastic utensils and paper plates, because they do not require dishwashing.

You men win your way into office and retain that office essentially by promising some Americans that you will give them the fruits of another man's labor. You also win office by promising one group of Americans that they will be given a right or privilege that will be denied other Americans.

I lost the job because one of Jack's employees complained to the department of labor that he was in violation of child labor laws.

Before the do-gooders "helped," they forgot to ask, why would anyone work ten hours per day for the paltry sum of $2 or $3 an hour? Would they have selected such a job if they had superior alternatives? The only conclusion is that the low-paying sweatshop job might be their best alternative. Such a person is indeed unfortunate, but they are by no means made better off by the destruction of that low-paying job.

In pursuing the goal of development, one must start with the producers and move on from there to see whether the products of their labor are being rationally utilized to bring greater independence and well-being to the nation. (23)

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And it worked." To