Read quote“I’m not really retired, I’m just not getting paid.”
About Labor
Work, workers, employment, and the social and political organization of labor.
The collection
Words on Labor
Read quote“Africa is no different from many other continents. We need to do the things that create jobs, uplift standards of living, and take us out of poverty.”
Read quote“an intellectual working like a happy slave, but no more happy when treated like a slave.”
Read quote“Prefiero la risa. El aplauso viene después de la risa.”
Read quote“There were only two ways for boys to go in those days: down, working in the pits, or up if you happened to be good at football.”
Read quote“I've been a bag boy a thousand times in five languages.”
Read quote“If you can’t leverage Africa’s young talent, you should not be working in Africa.”
Read quote“If you have surplus money and are wealthy, you should invest and be an angel as this will help create employment and give our young people a chance.”
Read quote“Pregunte cuánto cuesta tirarlo al mar, y le enviaré telegráficamente su importe. Yo a los colonos debo pagarles lo que les ha costado cosecharlo.”
Read quote“justicia, paga y porotos”
Read quote“We make people laugh, so we should make some money for it.”
Read quote“Çalışmış değilim ki para alayım.”
Read quote“You must treat your employees as family. Pay them a good salary [and] give them benefits.”
Read quote“I was jobless and hungry when I came to Mumbai first.”
Read quote“¿De que sirven los pueblos arruinados?, ¿De qué los países fértiles sin agricultores?, ¿De que las minas poderosas sin operarios?”
Read quote“We can succeed if all parties, unions, business owners and the Government work together as a team.”
Read quote“A kis kórházak nem tudnak alkalmazni főállású gyógyszerészt.”
Read quote“No thinking woman can be indifferent or hostile to such an advance on old methods as the formation of a Domestic Helps’ Union.”
Read quote“The apprenticeship system is plausible, when superficially observed; but it is found to be little less than infernal when thoroughly known.”
Read quote“To instruct the working class, to inculcate in him the love for work, virtue, honesty, to teach him his duties and highest rights; to awaken him in his soul the sentiments of dignity and civicism, necessary for a perfect citizen.”
