Quotes About Workers

All officials, without exception, elected and subject to recall at any time, their salaries reduced to the level of ordinary "workmen's wages" — these simple and "self-evident" democratic measures, while completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of the peasants, at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism.

Os escravos assalariados de hoje, em conseqüência da exploração capitalista, vivem por tal forma acabrunhados pelas necessidades e pela miséria, que nem tempo têm pa-ra se ocupar de "democracia" ou de "política"; no curso normal e pacífico das coisas a maioria da população se encontra afastada da vida política e social.

To refuse to work in the reactionary trade unions means leaving the insufficiently developed or backward masses of workers under the influence of the reactionary leaders, the agents of the bourgeoisie, the labor aristocrats, or the "workers who have become completely bourgeois".

Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies' hands, or become dead letters, unless the workers through their organizations have directly enforced the observance. So that in the end, it is direct action that has to be relied on anyway.

Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

As long as management is quick to take credit for a firm's successes but equally swift to blame its workers for its failures, no surefire remedy for low productivity can be expected in American manufacturing and service industries.

quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

The Black Plague!" Niobe exclaimed. "What good did that do?" "It alleviated the European population pressure, decimated the labor force, and-so paved the way for the end of the feudal system," Satan said. "You can't keep workers in peonage when there are so few that their value is great.

Not even a God would have the right to deal a blow for the unwarlike: the law decrees that to come safe out of battle is for fighting men, not for those that pray. The harvest comes home not for praying but for tilling...we have no right to complain of the ignoble getting the richer harvest if they are the only workers in the fields, or the best.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.

Our party is not like the Congress, where leaders are more important than the party and ethics. In our party, people and workers are more important than leaders.

dejaba la educación de los niños obreros en manos de religiosos que les inculcaban aquellas ideas que debían llevarlos a la admisión de las clases sociales como designio divino, para que renunciaran a su libertad y se humillaran y sometieran pacíficamente a los privilegiados, todo bajo la promesa de un mundo mejor tras la muerte.

The best that workers can hope for is a condition of full employment, and that can be achieved only by increasing production at a rate matching the growth of the population. This solution, however, was not enough for the most prominent thinker of classical liberal ideology

The bias is often subtle, or even subconscious. People at HubSpot rarely talk about age bias, and when they do, they're not talking about older workers being treated poorly. They're talking about how unfair it is that people in their early twenties are not given enough responsibility, just because they're young.

Hay muchísimo en juego. La globalización mal gestionada está teniendo importantes consecuencias, no sólo en Estados Unidos, sino también en el resto del mundo desarrollado —en especial en Europa— y en los países con ingresos bajos y medios en los que viven la mayoría de los trabajadores del mundo. Es de capital importancia lograr un equilibrio entre la apertura económica y el derecho a la gestión del espacio político.

inequality, exclusion, and duality became more marked in countries where skills were poorly distributed, and many services approximated the textbook ideal of impersonal, unfettered markets. The United States, where many workers are forced to hold multiple jobs in order to make an adequate living, remains the canonical example of this model.

Karl Marx famously said that religion is "the opium of the people." What he meant is that religious sentiment could obscure the material deprivations that workers and other exploited people experience in their daily lives.

2016 study looked at more than eight hundred workers (mostly in information technology, education

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

Paying workers a decent level of sick pay means they can afford to isolate when they test positive for Covid and are less likely to spread the virus to their colleagues.

they were originally made from the metal remains of the first Québec Bridge. It collapsed in 1907, killing eighty-six workers. It was a catastrophic failure of engineering. The rings were made to remind engineers of that disaster, and the consequences of what they, what we, do.