“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.” WorldYearsMadePresidentMillionsThousandTenHundredLaborUnionsRaisedEightMade ItMembershipLabor Union Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.” YearsTwoBookWarBigsForceProgressRevolutionHundredConsequenceYears AgoLaborPaidFeministLiberationRisingInflationExclusiveStraightforwardHouseworkIndustrial RevolutionDomesticityLabor ForceEnrollment Author:Barbara Bergmann
“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.” IfsMenLittlesSoulJoyForceHe ManArmsSorrowHundredConscienceLaborWorkersShedTranquilityThoroughSulky Author:William Wilberforce
“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.” PeopleIfsMayWholeOrderNationsEnjoyNumbersGreaterShareProduceTenHundredLaborContraryAcquireLabourCivilizedSavagesLowestPoorestIndustriousWorkmenFrugal Author:Adam Smith
“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.” IfsMenYearsHumansWellsMayMatterAgeBornHuman BeingsMoralImagineProgressProduceDiseaseMassHundredLaborDistanceSorryCeaseOld AgeRemoveGravityAgricultureFloatsRapids Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers control of factories, community control of communities, and so on. That was socialism once. But it hasn't meant that for a hundred years. Socialism meant something different.” IfsYearsMeanDifferentEnoughPoliticalUsedLostTermCommunityMediaHundredLaborWorkersProductionsSocialismProducersSpheresFactoriesCommerceDiscourseEliminationDemocratizationPolitical Discourse Author:Noam Chomsky