“So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.” PeopleI CanDoneFactsLawHouseImagineTaughtLowsPaidAgreeBoringLawyerFamiliarFrustratingRepetitiveDrudgeryHousekeepingUnintelligent Book:Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House Source: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
“The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.” WayMayUseThreeClassIgnoranceLowsPaidLabourOppressedWorking ClassWagesEmployersNeglectedIncompetentThree Ways Author:Robert Owen
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.” StillsWholeStuffInterestSpecialLowsLaborPaidMajorityPopulationSpecial InterestsWorkforceElectorate Author:Ai-jen Poo
“The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.” HandsLowsPaidTreatedLots Of MoneyDirt Author:Andrew Davies
“If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.” IfsThinkingShouldGovernmentAbleCoursesPovertyTypeLowsPaidAttractiveProvidingWagesAssistanceSubsidiesGovernment Assistance Author:Angela Merkel
“I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.” IfsBelievePastI BelieveLevelsHonestPoliticianLowsGloryPaidThanksColonyThirteen Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.” FallLevelsRiskSecurityLowsPaidInvestmentUncertaintyRelativeInherentLow Level Author:Seth Klarman
“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)” WayWantWritingI CanBookWholeStarsReaderCostLowsExpectationsPaidPostsJustifyEditorsReviewsNew WaysBlogs Author:Kate Christensen
“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.” IfsSocialBornAttentionEconomicConflictLowsPaidCarefulAffluenceHighs And LowsDialectics Author:Elena Ferrante
“The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksHeartLittlesEndsStoriesUsedCostLowsPaidCamerasBudgetsReally GreatCheaper Author:Katie Aselton
“Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.” PeopleForceBenefitsMassLowsPaidWorkersBritishImmigrationWages Author:Theresa May
“In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.” WorldWarTodayJobsGivenResultsPayFourCostSkillsLowsPaidCompetitionWorkersInternationalDecadesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiManufacturingPremiumSkilled Workers Author:Christina Romer
“I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksCountryWhiteLowsPaidSurfaceMinoritiesWealthyWagesGhetto Author:Alice Walker
“The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.” WayWarMotherPayGenerationsDemandEqualMarriedLowsDaughterFemalePaidStructureWorkersEqualityCampaignsEmploymentPostsLegacyNormWorkforcePart TimeWartimeEqual PayMarried Women Author:Linda Grant
“Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.” WantFeelsPlayFeelingsWould BeActorsBitsActingTakenAdventureLowsAdvantagePaidListsLengthEccentricNew ZealandTaken Advantage Author:Ian Mckellen
“To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.” RealStatesHomeGrowthUnitedUnited StatesSkillsLowsIncreasePaidTradeWorkersPatternsImmigrationReformCombinationRelatedMexicoUrbanWagesReductionNaftaUrban And Rural Author:William J. Clinton
“Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid 'ancillary' jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work'.” HardHandsLightJobsEasyChallengesMy OwnEffectsExpressionMaterialsHard WorkLowsSkinsOppositesPaidNotionAppearanceCaringTechniqueEmploymentLayersThreadWornCanvasEmployedCleaningFemininityCateringEmbroidery Author:Eliza Bennett