“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.” LittlesPoliticalForceDoubtProductsActivityMajorsLaborFunctionRegardUnionsSignificantLabor Union Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.” WritingMayHas BeensArtDoneFormVoicePoorRoomsSecretClassPovertyMaterialsPaperMajorsLaborPlentyProsePoetry IsHospitalsWorking ClassSubwayScrapTypewritersSurplusPantry Author:Audre Lorde
“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.” RealityChoicesCoursesCommunityWorkMoneyPayEducationClassStudyHuman NatureStudentsCollegeEqualMajorsCapitalismFemaleLaborMalesIndividualityGenderMathSeparationIdeologyGapsEqual RightsMath ClassPay GapCollege Courses Book:Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I
“Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.” BelieveTwoProblemThreeWealthResultsRichGrowingPlayerTeamConditionsProtectMajorsLaborBaseballUnionsFinancialClubsSpendingLocalsObjectivesTreatedPrimariesLeagueOwnersParadoxNegotiationDistributionRevenueYankeesImbalanceDisparityMajor LeaguePayrollPull UpsDistribution Of WealthMajor League Baseball Author:George Will
“In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.” BelieveHardWantedCenturyMovementLateMajorsLaborOrganizationUnionsRadicalTexasFarmersCommerceKnights19th CenturyHard To BelieveCooperativesPopulist Author:Noam Chomsky
“The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.” CultureSocialInformationCommunicationRevolutionMajorsLaborCurrentsEntertainmentLeisureTechnologicalSocial Revolution Author:Bill Gates
“ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.” PeopleYearsHardBigsLastsAsksIssuesSeeingMajorsAreasLaborAbuseInequalityApplesRevelationsFactoriesLast YearAmazonNsaWarehouseBay AreaGentrificationHard QuestionsUber Author:Astra Taylor
“It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump so heavily relied on data and studies from a labor-union-backed think tank.” ThinkingFirstsMightStudyPolicyTrumpRepublicanMajorsFirst TimeLaborUnionsLifetimeDataPresidentialAddressesTanksLabor Union Author:Avik Roy
“There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.” MenMadeSelfDealsPovertyStruggleTruth IsMajorsLowsLaborPresidentialCandidatesAccomplishedScholarSenatorsObscurityStatesmenFranklinSelf MadePresidential CandidateSelf Made ManGarfield Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesPolicyMovementMajorsLaborLabor Movement Author:Noam Chomsky