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Labor Quotes
"There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it."
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"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."
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"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."
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"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
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"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."
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"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
2
"Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"He that can work is a born king of something."
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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
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