“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
“under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.” MenOpportunityNaturalWorkEconomicPrivilegeLabourEntitledUnemploymentEconomic Systems Author:Suzanne La Follette
“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.” ThinkingWayHas BeensWholeLastsOrderThreeSocialWorkEconomicCenturyWasteEconomicsProductionsEnvyConfusionConsumptionCagesTrashAvariceSquirrelsSocial Systems Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.” MenWayNeedsRealityPoliticsSocialCommunityWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyClassHistoryGenerationsEconomicHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsMen And WomenCapitalismStrategyPlanningBest WayTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilitySexismReverseEqual Rights Author:Stephanie Coontz
“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.” MenWorkCommonMarriageWorryEconomicLonelinessIllusionCommon SenseFactorsReleaseDependenceIndestructibleWorking Man Author:Mary Barnett Gilson