The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will… — Carl Guardino Copy Share Image
Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as… — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Supporting workforce development is critical to growing our economy and creating greater opportunity for Vermonters, making this grant program tremendously valuable for… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives… — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year;… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do.… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
A massive new guest worker program hurts American workers. ... If a guest worker program were to provide a path to citizenship,… — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too -… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
