The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert
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I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.
Andy Stern
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I lead Labor - Labor is the party that founded the state of Israel; it's deeply rooted in Israeli society.
Isaac Herzog
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
John Wells
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A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
Afrika Bambaataa
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Noam Chomsky
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The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.
Ami Ayalon
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Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.
Edwin Markham
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If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
Renee Ellmers
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Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
Stephanie Coontz
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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
Ben Miles
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
Toshihiko Fukui
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In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S. labor market.
Ben Bernanke
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Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
Linda Chavez
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I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.
Tom Perez
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
Leland Stanford
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler
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The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
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The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.
Robert Zubrin
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
Oliver Tambo
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