Barrels Quote by Lenny Bruce

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

— James Cook

All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would…

— Lysander Spooner

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

— Elizabeth Warren

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

— Karl Marx

When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as…

— Richard Sennett

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

— Nick Hanauer

We need to get back to the basics of talking about the American Dream, where hard work is rewarded with wages sufficient to guarantee…

— Tom Suozzi

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

— Adam Smith

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our…

— Rose Schneiderman

In the wealthiest country in the world, every worker should be able to get a piece of the American Dream.

— Marty Walsh

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be…

— Henry Ford

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

— Tim Bishop