Labor Force Quotes

• Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

  Ali Babacan

  Strong, Quality, Population

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• My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

  Mother Jones

  Together, Want, Faults

  Mother Jones (1988). “The speeches and writings of Mother Jones”

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• Una de las mejores formas de combatir la pobreza y luchar contra el terrorismo es educar a las niñas e incorporar a las mujeres a la fuerza de trabajo formal.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Girl, Fighting, Way

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• Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Policies And Procedures, Immigration, Example

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• Look at Germany where 20 percent of the labor force is in manufacturing compared to about 8 percent in the United States. Germany pays a lot more conscious attention at the level of the federal government to attracting and keeping manufacturers in Germany. So this is something that other countries do that the United States has not historically done.

  Edward Alden

  Country, Government, United States

  "Trump's 'Interventionist Approach' To Economic Policy Presents Consequences". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

  Sheila Kamerman

  Mean, Odds, Parent

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Two

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• In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Technology, Risk

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

  C. Wright Mills

  People, Individual, Proportion

  "White Collar: The American Middle Classes". Study by C. Wright Mills, 1951.

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• En Estados Unidos hay escasez de mano de obra cualificada porque la protegemos de la competencia mundial. [Las cuotas de visados han sustituido al mecanismo de fijación de precios salariales. En el proceso hemos creado [una] élite privilegiada cuyos ingresos se mantienen en niveles no competitivos gracias a las cuotas de inmigración de profesionales cualificados. La eliminación de estas restricciones reduciría al menos en parte la desigualdad de ingresos.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Competition, Immigration

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• Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Zero, Real

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• La Decimocuarta Enmienda, después de la guerra civil, en principio incluyó a los antiguos esclavos en la categoría de personas, teóricamente. Pero si nos fijamos en la realidad, casi todos los casos presentados por derechos personales en virtud de la Decimocuarta Enmienda fueron por corporaciones. Los esclavos liberados no pudieron hacerlo. De hecho, un pacto entre el Norte y el Sur les obligó a volver a una situación parecida a la esclavitud, lo que permitió a los antiguos estados esclavistas criminalizar la vida de los negros, convirtiéndolos en una fuerza criminal que se utilizó básicamente como mano de obra forzada hasta la década de 1930.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Rights, Black

  Entrevista con Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. 15 de agosto de 2012.

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• When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Worry, Inflation

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Age, Population

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.

  Jody Heymann

  Moving, Home, Men

  "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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• You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Years, African American

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Obama ha tenido dos éxitos clamorosos en su mandato: Ha reducido drásticamente el desempleo persuadiendo a millones de personas de que abandonen la esperanza y la población activa; y ha recortado la inmigración ilegal sumiendo a Estados Unidos en una escasez permanente de empleo. ¡Menudos logros!

  Dick Morris

  Empleo, Renunciar, Recortar

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Salary, Minimum Wage

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• So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Ethnicity, Division Of Labor

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• La realidad es que la inmensa mayoría de las mujeres están trabajando y van a formar parte de la población activa durante mucho tiempo. Aunque decidan tomarse un tiempo libre, hacen cosas que las mujeres de los años 60 no hacían.

  Heather Boushey

  Reality, Long, Majority

  "Women's pages: Next time you read about 'what women want,' check the research -- it's likely to be flimsy" by Reyhan Harmanci, www.sfgate.com. January 4, 2006.

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• If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.

  Tim Gunn

  Pockets, Done, Maids

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• Nuestra economía depende hoy de la mano de obra femenina. Uno de cada tres trabajadores es una mujer. Hoy hay casi 25 millones de mujeres empleadas, y su número aumenta más rápidamente que el de hombres en la población activa.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Economy Today, Equal Pay

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963", p.465, Best Books on

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• Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

  Joanna Russ

  Madre, Trabajos, Lo siento

  "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 137), February 1975.

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• Agradezco a los miembros del Congreso que han trabajado con tanta diligencia para sacar adelante la Ley de Igualdad Salarial. Es un primer paso. Afirma nuestra determinación de que cuando las mujeres se incorporen al mundo laboral encontrarán igualdad en sus retribuciones.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Grateful, Equal Pay

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963", p.465, Best Books on

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• The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, People, Office

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