Governance Quote by Mark Fisher

At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Karl Marx

Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.

— Guy Standing

“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— James Cook

The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty…

— Adam Smith

Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible…

— Judith Butler

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old prosperity is…

— Chris Hedges

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

— Karl Marx

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

— David Korten

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

— David Harvey