“Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.” AbleNightSexStruggleIndustryDemandFemaleMalesForestsExceedProstitutionPatronOverflowPower StruggleAmoralityService IndustryTestifyingMoppingMopping Up Book:Sexual Personae Source: Sexual Personae
“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.” PeopleJobsClassRichGrowingMiddleIndustryMiddle ClassRich PeopleManufacturingService Industry Author:Chris Hayes
“I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.” MayHelpingAgeGoalSupportEconomyIssuesDevelopmentIndustryInstitutionsEmbraceRaisedMeritLeisureHypothesisCriteriaAdventScholesMilieuPersonal GoalService Industry Author:Ivan Illich
“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsWellsFactsBigsClearPolicyCollegeParticularIndustryWeaknessYears AgoArgumentRegardRaisesVictimCompetitionUnionsRaisedInternationalAbsenceDebateDepressingWagesBack And ForthPublic PolicyService Industry Author:Barney Frank
“I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.” PeopleIfsMindLooksKindSelfMightActingOne ThingDogExpressionIndustryDirectorsSurpriseObedientSelf ExpressionService Industry Author:Michael Shannon
“I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.” PeopleHardJobsDealsIndustryHardestYellingMcdonaldsFast FoodFood IndustryHardest JobService Industry Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.” LittlesRealMovingGrowingStreetsWallIndustryNeededTreatsCrisisFinancialSignificantMoving ForwardReformInconvenientReal QuestionsRainfallSignificant ChangeFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Elizabeth Warren
“The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.” MenSongIndustryBlueAddConstructionDoing YouCollarsSweatingBlue CollarBefore And AfterService IndustryConstruction Work Author:David Lee Roth
“I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.” SaidImportantProblemHandsLevelsIssuesFieldsIndustryReturnEuropeFinancialTreatedMinistersTreatmentPrimeIntroducingPrime MinisterSupportiveExceptionalGlovesPlaying FieldsFragmentedLevel Playing FieldEurozoneFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Nick Clegg
“I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.” PeopleIndustryAuthorityUnionsWorkersGladLoyalHousekeepersValetService Industry Author:Jacob Tomsky
“The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.” PeopleTeacherPositionIndustryAverageIncomeRestaurantsMinimumNursingAssistantsMinimum WageFast FoodPreschoolParamedicsService IndustryFast Food Restaurants Author:David Rolf
“The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.” YearsHas BeensMatterFactsIndustryBuiltRestaurantsImmigrantsDubiousUnderpaidService Industry Author:Anthony Bourdain
“There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.” PeopleWayWantYoungGivenMillionsEconomyStreetsStudentsWallIndustryElementsLowsDebtDrivenLockedLoanPredatoryStudent LoanService Industry Author:Jill Stein