It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in ’79. – Barbara Castle
The question is always ‘What is the role of a labor movement?’ How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? – Andy Stern
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural… there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured. – Andy Stern
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. – Booker T. Washington
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms. – Barry Commoner
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know where Bush is going – yet. But, Sharon obviously – I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay. – Arthur Hertzberg
My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle. – Ariel Sharon
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. – Annie Smith Peck
In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery. – Christy Turlington
It is plain that we don’t care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. – Coretta Scott King
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor. – Alan Greenspan
To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation. – Ben Bernanke
I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale. – Angus King
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. – Nikola Tesla
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. – Noam Chomsky
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. – Dag Hammarskjold
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves. – Douglas Rushkoff
I’m not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I’m not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots. – Mohamed ElBaradei
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen. – Martin Filler
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it’s called the Bush Administration. – Edward Kennedy
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don’t want to do the jobs. – Dana Rohrabacher