#labour

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

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The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#any #done #female #gender #increase

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#decision-making #decision-making process #dialogue #founded #involves

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#applaud #britain #eastern #eastern europe #europe

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#government #indication #labour #least #satisfied

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that ‘they’ will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that ‘they’ would never allow it. Who were ‘they’? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently ‘they’ were omnipotent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #servility #trade-unions #wage-labour #working-class

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#children #engaged #estimated #exploitative #fifty

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

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