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“I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.”

“Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.”

Men Giving Political Effort Economic Achieve Determination Labor Average Average Man Economic Freedom Labor Day Political Freedom Work Effort

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.”

Men Has Beens Government Politics Liberty Economic Ten Labor Saving Devices Marvelous Machinery

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”

Men Way House Wealth Economic Produce Labor Horse Factors Housework

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.”

“After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.”

Children Social Interest Economic Policy Advantage Labor Despite Firm Employed Abolish Child Labor Social Policy Child Labour

Author:Barry Commoner

“The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.”

“The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.”

“Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.”

Sides Poverty Economic Labor Input Economic Systems Global Poverty Cheap Labor

Author:Michel Chossudovsky