Ants Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

— Abraham Maslow

The fact that people are dropping out of the labour force says one of two things: either employers have no use for them, or…

— David Autor

Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.

— Ricardo Flores Magon

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because…

— Daphne Koller

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

— Bob Hawke

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result…

— Kim Campbell

It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred…

— James A. Garfield

“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be…

— Albert Einstein

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

— Grace Lee Boggs

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

— Lily Tomlin

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

— David Brooks