Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker’s pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money...

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

For the United States, it’s the end of labor as we once knew it.

We’re seeing the fruits of our labor. We’ve been pushing for this for so long.

Every birth comes out of labour pains. The most difficult task is not about being pregnant with visions; it’s about delivering an impact that inspires lives.

Employment: I’ll trade my time and labor for your money. So time is not money, because money is time plus labor. I spend my time saving money, I spend my money saving time, and I...

The labor market is starting to look more and more like the one we experienced in the late 1990s. Companies are undoubtedly reluctant to increase their costs, but it has become necessary to boost salaries...

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end...

I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor. I prefer soft, and I’d prefer not giving birth.

I am not going to accept a deal just for the sake of having labor peace. . . . The deal has got to be fair.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress...

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn’t do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross...

Greenspan has to make sure the labor market has improved on a continuing basis before he can even think about hiking interest rates. For example, in 1992, he waited 17 months after the peak of...

But … the trend in unit labor costs is still declining and I would argue that the market and the Fed will say that this is a one-time surge.

This is payback time for AMFA. That’s the way the labor movement is looking at it, … Raiding is a sin, and [they believe] AMFA raided and won [by] saying it would never accept concessions....

We’re still returning to pre-hurricane levels but in general this is a good report. This is further evidence labor markets are still healthy in the U.S.

Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I...

…but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated....

If you look at labor demand, you should be getting a decent trend. It was only June data that fell below that trend.

I think that (labor peace at GM) is largely the news here. They’ve lost a lot of momentum last year and previous years due to strikes.

Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don’t Sow Labor Into Time

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, help families place their children in better-performing schools, and focus on programs to bring higher-paying...

Don’t mistake activity with achievement.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Fear not, the time is comingFear not, your bones are strongFear not, help is nearbyFear not, Gula is nearFear not, the baby is at the doorFear not, he will live to bring you honorFear not,...

Historically, the ‘deadline’ was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced...

You are exhausted, go and take a vacation at Club Med, take a pill, make a cure, get the hell away from it all, recover in the psychiatric hospital, kill yourself.” It is no longer...

All labor has dignity.

Ni dieu ni maître!(Neither God nor master)[Feminist and labour slogan translated to ‘No gods, no masters’]

The truth beyond the fetish’s glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of...

Venerable to me is the hard hand; crooked & coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal as the Scepter of this Planet. Hardly entreated Brother! For us was thy way so bent, for...

Unit labor costs were up 3.5 percent which, if sustained, would suggest increased labor cost pressures down the road.

You have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It’s time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let’s see it and give it a name!

The Fed sees the possibility of labor markets becoming tight, which could push up costs at some point. At this point we haven’t seen wage pressures but it’s something the Fed is watching.

Tell your wives and your older children to bring with them dish pans and cooking pots. Tell them to bring their stirring spoons and ladles. Tell them to carry a mop over their shoulders. We’re...

All wealth is the product of labor.

IT is one of the top areas hiring managers say they will be recruiting for in 2006. With the labor market becoming more competitive, hiring managers may need to rethink their recruitment and retention strategies.

Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don’t own it. Organized labor, by driving...

A thicker layer of ice requires some manual labor, so we tested the latest ice scrapers. We did this by freezing water to the bottom of the pan and then scraping that ice off with...

They grew up and saw the toughness of farming, their parents working year-round, and they saw that hard labor don’t necessarily pay off.

We believe investors are justifiably growing increasingly concerned that production disruptions due to labor disputes are increasingly probable as there are currently two suppliers in bankruptcy with another more than likely headed in that direction.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level...

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure....