“We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.” PeopleSpiritInterestHoursWorkPrinciplesEconomicColorProtectLaborOrganizationFoundationSpreadDoctrineCraftsLabourCreedsWagesReducingNationalityAdvancingCultivatingFraternityElevating Author:Peter J. McGuire
“Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.” MenHoursWorkEconomicTenSlaveryEconomic Slavery Author:Evan Esar
“[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.” IfsMenAbleJobsSexHoursAnimalCreativeEconomicStreetsFemaleMachinesAssumingMalesBoringSpendingAssGood JobAttainmentEliminationCreative WorkEconomic EqualityPeddling Author:Valerie Solanas
“A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.” ChildrenSelfReasonHoursExistenceDemocracyEconomicLaborWorkersJustificationWagesStretchingChild LaborSerfs Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.” WayGivingCareValuesHoursSimpleEconomicAmountTaxesSickPaidGenderFlexibleGender EqualityEconomic ValueSick Leave Author:Gloria Steinem
“Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.” PeopleThinkingWorldEnoughRunningHoursNumbersMorningEconomicTelevisionInternetNewsRadioEvery MorningEnough TimeTime To Think Author:Costa-Gavras
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.” YearsFallEnergyHoursMemoriesEconomyEconomicInformationKeysResourcesRetirementDelayRulingWireClicheGoverningShortageScarcityAluminumResidual Author:George Gilder
“One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.” HoursEconomyGroupsEconomicCrisisFinancialDecadesWakingEconomistSpectacularIntriguingGreat DepressionAnalyzingFinancial CrisisEconomic CrisisSubplots Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.” FeelingsLawHoursHurtLossResultsPiecesEconomicCenturyTenTradeBillsSlaveProfitOperationsHistorianIt HurtsLegislationHumanitarianism19th CenturyAbolitionMarxistSlave TradeNoblemenProfit And Loss Author:Barbara Tuchman
“If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldTwoPoliticalSpeakLanguageSocialHoursTalkingEconomicComplexityReportersSeventiesKnow It All Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader