Quotes About Labor

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.

According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'

As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

I haven't tried out one of those straw mattresses yet, but they look real uncomfortable," said Alex. "You'd have to be pretty tired to like it." "If you worked all day the way they did, you would be," answered Hilary.

This is a real pain in the neck," said Brandon M., wearing a yoke to carry two buckets of water.

not only deprives workers of the fruits of their labour by paying them 1/200th of the salary that goes to their CEO (the international average as of this writing, not including bonuses and stock options); it deprives workers of the very meaning of labour itself

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Today, most people "go to work." But back at the beginning of the nineteenth century, "going to work" was a brand new idea. Families had always worked together in their homes.

Now, weavers who worked at home couldn't get anyone to buy their cloth unless they sold it for less. Since they made less money from each piece, they had to work longer. Weavers worked for sixteen hours a day, their fingers sore and their eyes red -- and still couldn't make enough money to buy food.

No, I'm done! I'm tired, I'm sweaty, I'm in agony, and why do I feel like I need to shit?" "It's totally natural to feel that way," said Grace in a placatory, calming voice. "Some women even have one during labor." "What?" The word dripped with horror. "Women can shit when they're in labor? Tell me that won't happen to me! Don't you let me shit, Grace!