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“To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.”

Leader Team Offers Workers Devotion Managers Boss Workplace Transparent Transparency Correlation Good Boss

Author:David Niu

“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”

Two Law Nations Work Class Workers Nobility Employers Abiding

Author:Cullen Hightower

“The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.”

Way Giving Mean Produce Workers Productions Access Remedy Great Depression

Author:Upton Sinclair

“We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.”

People War Winning Felt Forget Issues Rights Figures Kings Unions Workers Radical Rising Prize Communist Vietnam Drs Vietnam War Nobel Unifying Nobel Peace Prize Prominence

Author:Barack Obama

“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”

“Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.”

Knows World Way Certain Work Knowledge Possibility Essentials Crisis Workers Certain Knowledge

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.”

Has Beens Body Pain Work Knowing Workers Automation Ambivalent Skilled Workers

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.”

Use Light Streets Car Drink Red Workers Available Gas Los Angeles Horizon Satisfying Airplane Flash Counterparts Flicker Billboards Red Lights

Author:Neal Cassady

“The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.”

Men America Genius Workers Come Up Productions Enterprise Productive Percentages Benches

Author:William S. Knudsen

“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”

Kind Art Artist Certain Claims Independent Intention Workers Treated Works Of Art Categories Commodity Craftsman Skilled Workers

Author:Raymond Williams

“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.”

“Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.”

Way Power Produce Please Creatures Equal Highest Workers Queens Companion Honey Bees Thrones Drones Ranking Hives Queen Bee

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.”

Giving Body Wanted Social Workers Clients Social Worker Chunks Leper

Book:Slaves of New York

Source: Slaves of New York

“You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.”

Has Beens Desire Fields Workers Related Biology Suspects Motivated Molecular Biology

Author:Francis Crick

“It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.”

People Ifs Want Feels Two Different Appreciate Workers Be Good Sober Different Peoples Living On Verge Dissatisfied Really Living

Author:Nic Sheff

“The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.”

Imagination Possibility Experience Workers Intelligence Employed Limitless Unemployed

Author:Dominique Bouhours

“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”

“... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.”

Work Relation Fellows Workers Wages Annoyed Fellow Workers

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”

Knows Humans Made Reason Term Work Human Beings Groups Judgment Organization Workers Rate Length Relative Sole Promotion Surveillance Fallibility Retention

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.”

Important Matter Whole Seems Work Fields Duty Management Method Workers Productions Consulting

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”

Humans Wells Mean Form Work Human Beings Majority Workers Granted Pleasant Relief Discovering Surroundings Recreation Monotony

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”

“... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.”

Children Government Results Responsibility Groups Honor Moon Criticism Management Assuming Workers Ignorant Code Unfair Decency Employers Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”

Ifs World Wells Matter Would Be Process Interest Practice Standards Workers Peaceful Well Being Consumers Shops Factories Defining Employers Collaborators Peaceful Places

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.”

“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.”

Mind Song Three Sound Written Week Minutes Havens Workers Satisfied Take Me

Author:Nick Lowe

“When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.”

Writing Years States Father President Party Leader Son Army Workers Dear Communist Secretary Korea North Korea Korean Kim Communist Party Us President North Korean

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.”

Ifs World Way Want Needs Should Choices Found Needed Losing Exciting Workers Wealthy Steel Our Choices Firefighter

Author:Marlo Thomas

“Dean is a doctor but he acts more like a postal worker!”

Doctors Workers Dean

Author:Jay Leno

“I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.”

Government Community Cutting Industry Directors Resources Red Workers Recovery Rely Regions Tape Federal Government Red Tape Auto Industry

Author:Barack Obama

“Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.”

Should Made Christian Attitude Saws Ought Integrity Commitment Excellence Workers Very Good Being The Best Good Work Genesis Best Attitude Dependability Commitment To Excellence

Author:R. Kent Hughes

“The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.”

“Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.”

Baby Worship Treats Dresses Workers Paris Couture

Author:Pierre Balmain

“Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.”

Play Running Levels Steps Fields Protect Workers Setting Settings Vulnerable Fairness Minimum Legislation Better Place Employers Minimum Wage Playing Fields Predictability Ontario

Author:Kevin Flynn

“... in the future a typical factory will host three workers: a man, a computer and a dog. The computer will do all the work. The man will feed the dog. And the dog's job? To bite the man - if he touches the computer.”

Ifs Men Jobs Three Dog He Man Computer Workers Bites Host Factories Typical

Book:Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis--and how We Can Fix it

Source: Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis--and how We Can Fix it

“All office workers are afraid of being late for work.”

Office Late Workers

Book:The Post Office Girl

Source: The Post Office Girl

“..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?”

Believe School Asks Social Situation Known Son Drinking Workers Saved Reform Remedy Resorts Psychiatrist Axioms Social Worker Actuality Counselor

Author:James Lee Burke

“God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.”

Needs Said Happens Jobs President Century Example Skills Training Workers Chinese 21st Century President Bush Korean New Job American Workers New Skills

Author:Jay Leno

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”

Men Want Process Money Produce Inspirational Life Politician Capitalism Workers Pity Presidential Coats Starving Us President Economic Inequality Presidents Day Fair Trade Cheapness

Author:Benjamin Harrison

“We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.”

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.”

Pay Industry Workers Decent Living Wage

Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia

“The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.”

Way Jobs America Growth Justice Workers Job Growth

Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!”

Evil Dog Danger Workers Flesh

Author:Paul the Apostle

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