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“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Way Economy Impossible Labor Function Workers Strikes Selling Live By Capitalist Capitalist Economy

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Littles Political Force Doubt Products Activity Majors Labor Function Regard Unions Significant Labor Union

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”

Jobs Politics Realizing Wealth Numbers Economy Labor Function Increase Rate Liberalism

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?”

Wisdom Jobs Purpose Politics Technology Economy Labor Function Liberalism Formation

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.”

World Ideas Problem Wisdom Politics Wealth Economy Produce Concepts Labor Function Property Solve Employment Liberalism Nonsense Ownership Blindness Amplify Property Ownership

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.”

Economic Land Development Labor Function Productions Involving Economic Development Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.”

People Ifs Way Political Religious Example Becoming Labor Organization Function Unions Classic Fundamentalism Participation Identifying Religious Fundamentalism Labor Union

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.”

“Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.”

Men Can Do Achieve Labor Function

Author:Orville Dewey

“Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.”

Years Wells Has Beens Important Helping Natural Birth Labor Function Well Being Related Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth Hormones Later In Life Natural Childbirth

Author:Janet Schwegel

“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

Ifs Wells Body Age Used Growth Healthy Disease Labor Function Moderation Accustomed Liable Defective Parts Of The Body

Author:Hippocrates