Quotes About Labor

la disminución de las horas de trabajo en la empresa, abriendo así la posibilidad de que los desempleados completen —y por qué no, aumenten— la jornada laboral. Esta sería otra forma de realizar una acción social y éticamente responsable con la sociedad y sus desempleados especialmente.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

Everything is work on the farm.

My mom's side of the family was farm workers.

As a farmer's son, I am familiar with the long, mucky shifts of our dairy workers.

Farming's always been my business.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

I come from the coal fields.

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.

To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly, boldly, and completely.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.