Quotes About Labor

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

There is nothing efficient about firms spurning more productive technologies because years of unrelenting attacks on social safety nets and collective bargaining have created cheap labour in abundance.

You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Significantly reorienting our immigration system towards skilled workers and away from unskilled aliens should be a non-negotiable quid pro quo for amnesty.

I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called 'manual labour.' Mostly it meant getting up at 5 A.M. and cutting grass endlessly.

We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.

I worked in a dining hall in college and I worked at UPS for a full three weeks - it was the worst job I ever had.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

He who does not work, will not eat

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

Fear God and work hard.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.