“Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.” VisionMovementCreationDependsNakedNarrativeLabourPoetry IsIntensityBlindness Book:Quite Early One Morning Source: Quite Early One Morning
“What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!” IfsWorldTwoCertainHurtDependsSillyVarietySmokingLabourCustomsTobaccoMaintenanceSnuff Book:The Fable of the Bees Source: The Fable of the Bees
“Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.” PersonsImportantPrinciplesEconomyDependsLabourDivision Author:Charles Babbage
“... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.” ThinkingBelieveWholeYoungGirlWishHalfClassPovertyTaughtParticularDependsCitizensPaperBreadNakedServantLatterLabourRepublicArticlesSubmitYoung WomenWagesPettyTreasonMills Author:Frances Trollope
“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.” GivingSelfTodayPartyExistenceRightsDependsCapitalismOrganizationWorkersChineseEnterpriseLabourCommunistCapitalistDominationCommunist Party Author:Jacques Ranciere