“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous” MenWorldYearsChildrenEnoughKidsTogetherFormPovertyMillionsEconomyWorstDangerousPercentMen And WomenLaborThirdsExtremesBillionsEngagedLabourRegionsUnemployedWorkforceExtreme PovertyChild LabourDecent Work Author:Juan Somavia
“The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.” MayTwoDifferentFactsForceSocialProcessRolesEconomyCapitalismIncreaseHistoricalBranchesProductiveLabourProgressiveManifestDiversePropositionsNational Economy Author:Vladimir Lenin
“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
“Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.” StatesShowsLevelsEconomyClearExampleParticularDemandConceptsDuesSettlingLabourUnemploymentEquilibriumMarket EconomyKeynesMarket Failure Author:Paul Ormerod
“The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.” PeopleMadePoliticalMillionsEconomySacrificeMinesCommunicationPopulationDestroyedGermanyLabourPrisonerElectricAgricultureWoundedPortLivestockInstallationPolitical PrisonersNational EconomyElectric Power Author:Enver Hoxha
“It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.” Has BeensAbleCoursesPoliticsGivenNaturalEconomyEnvironmentEconomicDemandResourcesRegardEntrepreneurIncludingProductionsTechniqueFactorsLiberalismLabourSoleUnitsEquipmentAssistantsNatural ResourcesEconomic SystemsFactors Of Production Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.” WisdomPoliticsNaturalEconomyLiberalismLabourLabourers Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.” IfsWorldKindDifferentActorsPoliticsEconomyEconomicSceneUniversalSellsCreditIsolationLiberalismLabourCapitalistConnectingHelplessness Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.” MenArtNationsCommunityHoursEconomyHe ManPlantLabourOur ThoughtsPatronFestive Author:Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
“The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.” PeopleHardGovernmentJobsNextGrowsPartyLeaderMillionsEconomyCuttingDoorsEconomicHealthHard WorkWalkingTaxesChaosMinistersBritainLabourPrimeImprovingPrime MinisterLabour PartyHealth ServicesNhs Author:David Cameron
“Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.” EconomyCompetitionLabourDoomMarket EconomyProfitability Author:Ludwig von Mises