“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.” YearsTwoBookWarBigsForceProgressRevolutionHundredConsequenceYears AgoLaborPaidFeministLiberationRisingInflationExclusiveStraightforwardHouseworkIndustrial RevolutionDomesticityLabor ForceEnrollment Author:Barbara Bergmann
“Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.” PeopleDoneHelpingCareRememberDealsRevolutionPaidActivismHelping OthersRebelVolunteerEarningVolunteerismAbove And BeyondEarning A LivingVolunteer Work Author:Susan J. Ellis
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?” ThinkingKnowsMenBookEndsFallRealizingCuttingGroupsDangerousRevolutionQuietSittingPaidLibraryAssMessBudgetsDesksFalling ApartLibrarianSubversiveBudget Cuts Author:Michael Moore
“I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.” SocialAttentionEffectsRevolutionDegreesComputerPaidMagazinesSoftwareDevelopersColumnists Author:Charles Stross
“Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave.” CountryHomeRevolutionNeededPaidLeavingFactoriesFormalWorkforceIndustrial RevolutionMaternityMaternity Leave Author:Jody Heymann
“There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRevolutionPaidIsraelBillionsDividesLots Of MoneyEgyptPouringArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisSucces Author:Nawal El Saadawi