#workers

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#buy #economy #ford #global #global economy

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#countries #exploited #interests #oppressed #same

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#equality #fraud #freedom #lie #lying

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#egg #freedom #more #nest #nest egg

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #come #days #defending #easy

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#america #better #build #built #cities

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. ↗

— David Eddings

#employment #everyone #full #generations #get

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#economic #economic power #establish #insurance #most