Quotes About Worker

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

My father was a real interesting cat. He fixed conveyor belts for a living. He was a blue-collar worker, but at night he dressed like a player.

James Connolly, 1916: 'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.

Who is formally categorised as a "skilled worker" and who gets to define what work is "skilled" - together, these are two crucial gears in the machinery of any patriarchal workplace.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

For you being human means being human and being a woman and being a worker and being everything, everything. Asking a lot? Each of us is asked only for what he can give. Woe betide us, if he doesn't give it all.

No worker in construction or any other industry has an entitlement to make the work of our nurses harder. No one has that entitlement.

De kunstenaar is een arbeider lijk gij en ik. Hij maakt schoonheid, en hij wordt daar meestal niet voor betaald. De kunstenaar leeft en sterft met de arbeider mee. Al waar de arbeider naar verlangt, tracht de kunstenaar nu reeds gestalte te geven. Zo is de schrijver niet een dwaas die van sterren en maneschijn zingt, maar een ziener, een profeet over hoe het zou kunnen zijn. Dat is zijn plicht, zoals het de plicht van de arbeider is om de kunstenaar tegemoet te komen.

An old pagan ritual from a time when pagan meant peasant and peasant meant worker and being a worker was a significant thing,' said Myrna. Agent

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

El señor González, mi «jefe», aunque sea bastante cretino, resulta, sin embargo, bastante agradable. Parece que siempre está atemorizado, demasiado, desde luego, para criticar la tarea de cualquier trabajador. En realidad, es capaz de aceptar casi cualquier cosa, y es, por tanto, atractivamente democrático, a su modo subnormal.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

carefully manipulated display lay behind these reports (and whatever the uncanny similarity with a far better known miracle worker of the first century CE), eyewitnesses are

When industries fixate on automating jobs away, they paradoxically spoke demand for ghost work, shredding the social contract between employer and worker in their wake.

the apathy of many of the people around us is not due to their being physically or mentally exhausted. The problem seems to lie more in the modern worker's relation to his job, with the way he perceives his goals in relation to it.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

We took them up to the register, where the student worker on duty had a large silver ring pierced through the side of her nose. I had an urge to get Rochester's leash and see if I could hook it to her ring, but I resisted.

In Japan, the highest-paid executive earns only fifteen times what the average worker does. Here, CEOs earn five hundred times more, but that's supposed to motivate the American worker. To do what, kidnap his boss?