“The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.” PeopleAgeForceLevelsLaborPopulationFewerReplacementsShrinkingLabor Force Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.” PeopleForceWorryLaborInflationLabor Force Author:Michael Hudson
“If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.” PeopleIfsWantEconomyGrowingLaborWorkersWages Author:Michael Hudson
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.” PeopleTrumpLaborRight ThingPulling Author:Jeff Sessions
“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.” PeopleIfsLooksEndsBigsPoliticalSocialPartyStruggleMovementGainsLaborVoteDiedIndependentSlaveryTransitionPolitical PartiesRight To VoteLabor Movement Author:Jill Stein
“I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentProblemArtistRightsLaborPerformancesTablesHuman RightsSolveLawyerNew WaysGatheringDifferent PeoplesPlaywrightOrganizerAnthropologists Author:Sandra Cisneros
“First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.” PeopleWayFirstsDiesLeftHappenedGoes OnSucceedFirst TimeLaborFruitBridgesUnconsciousBloodyBeatenArrestedConcussions Author:John Lewis
“By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanIdeasRealDoneFactsHappensJobsActorsComedyStreetsTvsAmountStandardsLaborHarderHardestNo IdeaComedianCompareBottlesLightningManualsHardest JobManual Labor Author:Billy Eichner
“Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.” PeopleImportantClassDemocracyMiddleProductsLaborWorkersPreservesOrganizedContributionMiddle ClassOur SocietyRecognizingConnectingOrganized Labor Author:Dolores Huerta
“Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.” PeopleJobsWhiteRichLaborValleysManufacturingProgrammersCollarsSiliconSilicon ValleyTechniciansWhite Collar Author:David Brooks
“If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.” PeopleIfsKnowsBigsAsksNamesCommunityLaborVoteOrganizationUnionsGuidesPropositionsLatinoBallotsLabor Union Author:Dolores Huerta
“Do the thousands of people that Donald Trump have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them?” PeopleKindCoursesPayTakenTrumpDeserveLaborGoodsApology Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsShouldKindCountryJobsMovingGivenMovementLaborBritainBullshitPissed OffFluidity Author:Dylan Moran
“I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this time because the big issue in Capricornia which is based on the city of Rockhampton is the fact that the economy is - the regional economy is in a poor shape as a result, in particular of the decline of the mining industry and they are looking to the Carmichael mine, the Adani project as containing all of the prospects that they see for their future and that is why people in Rockhampton are very, very fearful of a Labor-Greens government.” PeopleFactsBigsGovernmentPoorResultsPartyCitiesEconomyIssuesMinesParticularIndustryShapesProjectsLaborAssumingSeatsFearfulDeclineProspectsContainingMining Author:George Brandis
“One of the senior Labor frontbenchers from Queensland, Terri Butler, said that she was against the Adani mine. So that is the clearest statement we've had from a person who would be a member of a Shorten government, that if there were to be a Shorten government as far as she's concerned, the Adani mine wouldn't go ahead. People in Rockhampton know that and they're very worried about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidGovernmentWould BeMinesMembersConcernedLaborStatementsWorriedSeniorButlersQueensland Author:George Brandis
“We want people to take care of themselves. We want people to provide for themselves. We want people to enjoy the fruits of their labors. We want people to enjoy reaching out and making their dreams come true. We want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. You need a growing economy for this.” PeopleWantNeedsDreamCarePassionEnjoyRealizingEconomyGrowingLaborFruitTake CareReachingReach OutDreams Come TrueDreams And PassionGrowing Economy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingTryingKindChildrenWarProblemHappensAgeFormStuffViolenceLaborSightStuckWitnessBe YouElsewhereLive Your LifeGlobalizationVictimizationChild LaborSweatshops Author:Robert Hass
“Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].” PeopleKnowsBookGuyHateChoicesChurchLaborBackgroundsSupposed To BeCardinalsHate Him Author:Nat Hentoff
“Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.” PeopleChildrenResultsMoralEconomicTaxesLaborShoesGymDictatorshipBrutalBugsDickensChild LaborImportation Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.” PeopleWantNegativeLaborConnotation Author:John Darnielle
“I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.” PeopleFeelsKindLongArtIdeasDoneHateFeltRealizingLosesEffectsStageLong TimeArt IsLaborFinalsCome UpFinishedReactionsOver ItIndifferentCompletionLove Or Hate Author:Frank Iero
“As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.” PeopleTogetherJobsSocialDecisionPartyConceptsLaborClaimsUnionsFavorsIncomeSecureDecentEmployeeAgreementWorking TogetherDecision MakingLastingJustificationParticipationUnconditionalExaminationPayment Author:Martin Schulz
“Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.” PeopleNeedsOrderQualitySucceedCreatingBuiltLaborCommunistQuantityQuantity And Quality Author:Joseph Stalin
“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.” PeopleIfsWayPoliticalReligiousExampleBecomingLaborOrganizationFunctionUnionsClassicFundamentalismParticipationIdentifyingReligious FundamentalismLabor Union Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can enjoy the fruit of their labor. Most people really enjoy the process of making beer and like the industry as a whole. We often are passionate about what we do and enjoy talking to people about the art and science of making beer.” PeopleThinkingArtEndsWholeProcessEnjoyTalkingIndustryLaborFruitPassionateCraftsBeerThe End Of The DayArt And ScienceAnd At The End Of The DayBrewers Author:Michael Jordan
“All of the youth ferment on campuses is a very good thing. Lots of people are being permanently transformed and will do good thing throughout their lives. However, young people must be careful not to be coopted, even by labor unions and the like. They must keep their eye on a radical transformation of society.” PeopleEyeYoungYouthLaborTransformationGood ThingsUnionsVery GoodCarefulRadicalBe CarefulTransformedCampusLabor Union Author:Michael Yates
“The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.” PeopleMenMillionsSacrificeGroupsLaborOrganizationPaidUnionsEtcMarchWeekendMondayPhilanthropicLabor UnionGreat Sacrifice Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact prevented from doing so. As a result, huge differences also persist in the price of labor, as you can see when you get a haircut in rural India or hire a driver or babysitter in Bolivia. You can easily buy such services at one-fiftieth the price you would pay in London, Hamburg or Manhattan.” PeopleFactsDifferencesResultsPayPrinciplesHugeLaborCrossesIndiaLondonBordersDriversPersistManhattanHaircutsBabysitterBoliviaNational Borders Author:Thomas Pogge
“One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."” PeopleWellsKindPersonsDoeMadeHardEnoughUseNextRightsSecurityExerciseSmartLaborOrganizationInstitutionsWell BeingRelyFlexibleWhimWorkforceCalculusDisposableNeoliberalism Author:Judith Butler
“Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.” PeopleLooksToo MuchStreetsPolicyPlanetsLaborDestroying Author:David Graeber
“What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeFormPoliticalCreativeEconomicFrontsWeaponsLaborWorkersLoyaltyEfficientBe CreativePrecarious Author:David Graeber
“Every single one cabinet appointment: education, environment, labor - every single one is selected to undermine any aspect of government that's of any help to people, and that doesn't benefit the super-rich. And it's absolutely systematic. The interesting question will be how long Donald Trump's constituency can fall for the con game.” PeopleLongHelpingFallInterestingEnvironmentLabor Author:Noam Chomsky
“Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery. Changed hearts and minds are important. But they do little against the backdrop of a system that needs to exploit people and labor to survive. I'm more interested in changed systems than changed hearts.” PeopleMindHeartImportantBookReasonFocusChangedLaborMiseryHeart And Mind Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“We can cooperate more easily with those who more easily intelligible to us, who are more familiar to us. But the advantages of specialization of labor often push us in the direction working with people who have different strengths and viewpoints than we do. I think that this is one major reason why moralities are always subject to change, because some of the people we cooperate with are going to be different from us in ways that often lead them to have different value orientations than we have; and interacting with them can change us.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonValuesMoralityLaborFamiliar Author:David Wong
“Globalization in part means that a lot of people are walking into the room and in some cases becoming influential or even dominant voices in the conversation. Sometimes they are like party-crashers coming in and pushing people around, scooping up the valuables and eating up the food in the frig - bribing political leaders, undermining traditional economies and the ways of life that are interwoven with them, replacing them with new economic models that effectively exploit developing countries for their labor and resources.” PeopleMeanCountrySometimesPoliticalLeaderEconomyEconomicWalkingEatingLaborGlobalizationInfluential Author:David Wong
“We're finding that very well-educated people, people who have done everything right, are behind, really behind. And they are hoping they can stay in the labor market, but a word that's used in other countries that isn't used here is very apt here.” PeopleCountryDoneLabor Author:Teresa Ghilarducci
“While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.” PeopleCountryProblemPoorRichLaborBe GoodMiddle ClassGlobalization Author:Branko Milanovic
“It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.” PeopleEnoughDifficultChallengesEconomyLabor Author:Van Jones
“We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.” PeopleThinkingCountryEnoughMovingTruth IsLabor Author:Warren Buffett
“Housing has always been a key to Great Resets. During the Great Depression and New Deal, the federal government created a new system of housing finance to usher in the era of suburbanization. We need an even more radical shift in housing today. Housing has consumed too much of our economic resources and distorted the economy. It has trapped people who are underwater on their mortgages or can't sell their homes. And in doing so has left the labor market unable to flexibly adjust to new economic realities.” PeopleHomeRealityTodayEconomyEconomicLaborFinanceRadicalMortgageGreat Depression Author:Richard Florida
“I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists from the dawn of the art in the 20th century. There is a way you find a synthesis. You read texts by the Soviets who are discussing montage, and you have students figuring out how to put scenes together and tell stories visually. The theory becomes relevant in daily practice. It's free labor, which is pretty cool too. I think we all learn from each other and benefit from the collaborations.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtTogetherFilmLanguageStudentsSceneLaborCollaborationRelevant20th Century Author:Matthew Porterfield
“A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. Employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.” PeopleWritingKidsSpeakBlackCommunityEconomicPolicyLaborRecoveryEducatedMonetary Author:William Julius Wilson
“I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.” PeopleCountryEconomyEconomicBalanceBattleArgumentLaborTensionMiddle ClassWorking Class20th Century Author:David Simon
“I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongTechnologyPossibilityPromiseComputerLaborExcitingEvolveFilmmakingAnimation Author:Chris Wedge
“Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of the UK. And we are not following the cynical approach of saying: Young people don't usually vote so we don't have to make any offer to them. But to succeed, we need a progressive future partnership with the EU. It is not easy, but I genuinely think it is possible to do. And I want Labour in power to do it, because the damage that is being done is profound.” PeopleThinkingDifferentDoneEasyPartyEconomySucceedLaborVoteStrategyProfoundLabourProgressiveCynicalPartnership Author:Keir Starmer
“The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made by CEOs who are increasing profits by moving their plants to places where labor is cheap - that's where the problem is, not in schools, colleges and universities.” PeopleProblemSchoolMovingPoorRichCollegeConcernLaborPlantCeoOrdinary PeopleRich And PoorObscene Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall vividly the high level of culture, general and political, among first-generation working people during the Great Depression. Workers' education was lively and effective, union-based - mostly the vigorous rising labor movement, reviving from the ashes of the 1920s. I've often seen independent and impressive initiatives in working-class and poor and deprived communities today.” PeopleEnoughTodayPoliticalCultureCommunityPoorLaborIndependentInitiativeImpressiveLivelyGreat Depression Author:Noam Chomsky