“My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.” ThinkingFirstsWarJobsSocialActingHairProjectsConscienceVietnamVietnam War Author:Clarke Peters
“In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.” ThinkingJobsSocialTeacherOur LivesCenturyWorkers21st CenturyFlexibilitySocial WorkerFoster Care Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers.” IfsShowsWould BeJobsSocialLinesInterestingNumbersMillionsMediaModelsMajorityFollowingSocial MediaFollowersPlatforms Author:Karlie Kloss
“What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.” PeopleWantNeedsHelpingJobsSocialMiddleAchieveSafetyIncomeVulnerableAccomplishmentGenerousOur SocietySafety Net Author:Joe Kyrillos
“Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.” ThinkingWayShouldJobsSocialCompanyBlindResponsePostsResumes Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.” NeedsJobsSocialDealsSecurityCircumstancesComplexesProtectionSocial SecuritySubsistence Author:Ulrich Beck
“Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.” PeopleWantJobsLawFightingSocialJusticeMillionsRightsFairsElectionSocial JusticeFundamentalsPressesRussiaLike MeRule Of LawNew JobFree PressFundamental Rights Author:Garry Kasparov
“The most important social welfare program in America is a job.” ImportantJobsAmericaSocialProgramWelfareSocial WelfareWelfare Programs Author:Newt Gingrich
“Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.” CountryStatesJobsSocialResponsibilityHistoryPowerSupportEconomySecurityHonestyPolicyCreationCitizensDemandTaxesEconomicsCrisisInvestingProductionsDebtSocialismInternalsExpensesOther CountriesSocial SecurityTaxationReducingNew JobInvesting Money Author:Vladimir Putin
“Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.” TryingWarCountryReasonJobsNextSocialWiseRightsMiddleVoteDressesEastAssCivil RightsDestroyedMiddle EastSecularNext TimeGood JobSocial EqualityWise Ass Author:L. Neil Smith
“As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsYearsMeanJobsSocialProductionsMeaningfulIncomeTrendsFewerUnrestMeaningful WorkAutomationSocial Unrest Author:Edward Snowden
“One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.” WayShouldCountryWisdomJobsPoliticsSocialResponsibilityEconomyGreaterPlansEconomicInvolvedIndependenceTradeUnionsWorkersProfitProductivityLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipArrangementsProvenParticipationTrade UnionsProfit Sharing Author:Jacob K. Javits
“I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.” PeopleWorldAbleJobsLostStrongSocialLevelsResultsGreaterLandMissingConnectionsOptimismThreatFarmersVery StrongFamily And FriendsBankersUnstableKidnappingVenezuelaConsultantsZimbabweMissing OutSalespeople Author:Shawn Achor
“It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.” HumansJobsSocialResponsibilitySocial Responsibility Author:Colin Greenwood
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.” JobsSocialJudgingSuperiorsJournalismOutsidersVery HappyOutcastHappy And Content Author:Ethel Waters
“There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.” IfsShouldDoeProblemJobsSocialBlackClassIssuesClearRightsEconomicMiddleCrimeMovementGenderSolveAccessIncomeCivil RightsMiddle ClassCivil Rights MovementSocial ProblemsEconomic Issues Author:Betty Friedan
“Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.” PeopleReasonJobsSocialMemoriesLossCommonEconomicLonelinessReturnDatingIncludingIllnessDivorceCommon SensePsychologicalBoredomSlipsPromotionIdeologicalExhaustionBankruptcyMemory LossSingle People Author:Linda Sunshine
“I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.” ThinkingJobsLiteratureSocialIssuesCommentSocial Issues Author:Linda Sue Park
“In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.” PeopleWantRealHardFactsJobsOpportunitySocialBlackStandingEducationalReal LifeBackgroundsHard TimesExecutivesBlack PeopleBallroomEducational Background Author:Dorian Corey
“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanHelpingJobsSocialCausesBlackCommunityJusticeWhiteOpinionKingsComfortableHarmonyActivistLoadOppressedDrsSocial ChangeDiscomfortTenseBlack CommunityRacial Justice Author:Al Sharpton