Bigs Quote by Duncan Green Download Open image “There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.” — Duncan Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1950S 60S Bigs Hankering Hankering Big No point Trade Trade union Trade unions Unions Unions 1950S
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I feel unions are important because they built the middle class, and they can preserve the middle class. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
I think unions started as a good thing back in the day, but they've turned into a monster. — Matt Hughes Copy Share Image
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me." — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
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