“Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.” TermPayConditionsEqualEmploymentDecentReachingEmployersEqual PayDecent Work Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?” PeopleMayPleasurePoorConditionsTvsActivityEatingAvailableMeaningfulIceFormerConsumersDecentBuyingLatterGoodsRulersMinorsApartmentCreamIce CreamUnlikelyAutonomousBrainwashedConesPoor FamilyIce Cream Cones Author:Ellen Willis
“I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.” ThinkingPoetryConditionsPoetDecentPoetry IsShelterHealth EducationWorking Conditions Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?” MenCharacterTurnsBloodConditionsHeavyParisStreamsDecentHeelsHonorableLooking GoodSurfPlatonicSewersGents Author:Margaret Halsey
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.” WayGivingChildrenKidsSchoolLife IsFightingCitiesImpossibleConditionsSubjectsTvsBirthInternetDrinkEssentialsFemaleMotherhoodAdvertisingDecentFulfilledAssaultViciousPrecariousAccommodations Author:Virginie Despentes
“These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.” HumansHuman BeingsSimpleConditionsMinesConcernDecentKeyholes Author:Edgar Degas
“Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.” PeopleYearsRealityTodayLastsAmericaFightingBlackPayConditionsWillingLaborDestructionElectionWorkersOrganizedDecentWealthyElitesWagesSymptomsFridayOutletsRetailPlightShoppersOrganized LaborBlack FridayReaganomics Author:Thom Hartmann