Commodities Quote by Ivan Illich

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

“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

“Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts​ from…

— Ivan Illich

“It is a misconception to think of the function or result of machines as primarily one of creating jobs . The real result of…

— Henry Hazlitt

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy…

— Tim Jackson

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

— James Mackintosh

“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.”

— Ivan Illich

“A civilization in which frequent unemployment on the part of a multitude of men, able and willing to work, is a normal condition, has…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive their victims…

— SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty