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“For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.”

Long Enough Whole Force Term Danger Capacity Tragedy Significant Long Term Productive Labour Portions Unfortunate Unemployment 1930s

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.”

World Left Thirds Labour Exploitation Third World Sweatshops

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.”

Self Government Mistake Known Economic Security Policy Useless Britain Labour Serving National Security Incompetent Liability Self Serving Economic Policy Short Sighted

Author:Liam Fox

“So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.”

Hard Difficulty Labour Paradise Lost Book 2

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

“The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.”

“I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.”

People Understanding Views Party Compassion Principles Speech Tolerance Backgrounds Labour Freedom Of Speech Labour Party Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Geoff Hoon

“I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!”

People Knows Stills Sometimes Happens Next Knowing Strive Labour Bores Not Knowing Toil

Author:Celia Imrie

“The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.”

Worry Capacity Structure Corporate Features Operations Labour Location Cheaper

Author:Fredric Jameson